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+git-send-pack(1)
+================
+
+NAME
+----
+git-send-pack - Push objects over git protocol to another repository
+
+
+SYNOPSIS
+--------
+'git-send-pack' [--all] [--force] [--receive-pack=<git-receive-pack>] [--verbose] [--thin] [<host>:]<directory> [<ref>...]
+
+DESCRIPTION
+-----------
+Usually you would want to use gitlink:git-push[1] which is a
+higher level wrapper of this command instead.
+
+Invokes 'git-receive-pack' on a possibly remote repository, and
+updates it from the current repository, sending named refs.
+
+
+OPTIONS
+-------
+\--receive-pack=<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.
+
+\--exec=<git-receive-pack>::
+	Same as \--receive-pack=<git-receive-pack>.
+
+\--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.
+
+\--verbose::
+	Run verbosely.
+
+\--thin::
+	Spend extra cycles to minimize the number of objects to be sent.
+	Use it on slower connection.
+
+<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 transferred 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