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diff --git a/Documentation/git-send-pack.txt b/Documentation/git-send-pack.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..08e0705303 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/git-send-pack.txt @@ -0,0 +1,110 @@ +git-send-pack(1) +================ + +NAME +---- +git-send-pack - Push missing objects packed + + +SYNOPSIS +-------- +'git-send-pack' [--all] [--force] [--exec=<git-receive-pack>] [<host>:]<directory> [<ref>...] + +DESCRIPTION +----------- +Invokes 'git-receive-pack' on a possibly remote repository, and +updates it from the current repository, sending named refs. + + +OPTIONS +------- +--exec=<git-receive-pack>:: + Path to the 'git-receive-pack' program on the remote + end. Sometimes useful when pushing to a remote + repository over ssh, and you do not have the program in + a directory on the default $PATH. + +--all:: + Instead of explicitly specifying which refs to update, + update all refs that locally exist. + +--force:: + Usually, the command refuses to update a remote ref that + is not an ancestor of the local ref used to overwrite it. + This flag disables the check. What this means is that + the remote repository can lose commits; use it with + care. + +<host>:: + A remote host to house the repository. When this + part is specified, 'git-receive-pack' is invoked via + ssh. + +<directory>:: + The repository to update. + +<ref>...: + The remote refs to update. + + +Specifying the Refs +------------------- + +There are three ways to specify which refs to update on the +remote end. + +With '--all' flag, all refs that exist locally are transfered to +the remote side. You cannot specify any '<ref>' if you use +this flag. + +Without '--all' and without any '<ref>', the refs that exist +both on the local side and on the remote side are updated. + +When one or more '<ref>' are specified explicitly, it can be either a +single pattern, or a pair of such pattern separated by a colon +":" (this means that a ref name cannot have a colon in it). A +single pattern '<name>' is just a shorthand for '<name>:<name>'. + +Each pattern pair consists of the source side (before the colon) +and the destination side (after the colon). The ref to be +pushed is determined by finding a match that matches the source +side, and where it is pushed is determined by using the +destination side. + + - It is an error if <src> does not match exactly one of the + local refs. + + - It is an error if <dst> matches more than one remote refs. + + - If <dst> does not match any remote ref, either + + * it has to start with "refs/"; <dst> is used as the + destination literally in this case. + + * <src> == <dst> and the ref that matched the <src> must not + exist in the set of remote refs; the ref matched <src> + locally is used as the name of the destination. + +Without '--force', the <src> ref is stored at the remote only if +<dst> does not exist, or <dst> is a proper subset (i.e. an +ancestor) of <src>. This check, known as "fast forward check", +is performed in order to avoid accidentally overwriting the +remote ref and lose other peoples' commits from there. + +With '--force', the fast forward check is disabled for all refs. + +Optionally, a <ref> parameter can be prefixed with a plus '+' sign +to disable the fast-forward check only on that ref. + + +Author +------ +Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> + +Documentation +-------------- +Documentation by Junio C Hamano. + +GIT +--- +Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite |