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diff --git a/Documentation/git-send-pack.txt b/Documentation/git-send-pack.txt index 6192c5dc41..5ed25f54d1 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-send-pack.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-send-pack.txt @@ -9,12 +9,12 @@ git-send-pack - Push missing objects packed. SYNOPSIS -------- -'git-send-pack' [--all] [--exec=<git-receive-pack>] [<host>:]<directory> [<head>...] +'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 heads. +updates it from the current repository, sending named refs. OPTIONS @@ -29,6 +29,13 @@ OPTIONS 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 @@ -37,7 +44,7 @@ OPTIONS <directory>:: The repository to update. -<head>...: +<ref>...: The remote refs to update. @@ -48,24 +55,25 @@ 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 '<head>' if you use +the remote side. You cannot specify any '<ref>' if you use this flag. -Without '--all' and without any '<head>', the refs that exist +Without '--all' and without any '<ref>', the refs that exist both on the local side and on the remote side are updated. -When '<head>'s are specified explicitly, it can be either a +When '<ref>'s 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 that is +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 local - refs. + - 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. @@ -78,6 +86,17 @@ destination side. 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 ------ |