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diff --git a/Documentation/git-send-pack.txt b/Documentation/git-send-pack.txt index 205bfd2d25..bd3eaa69bf 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-send-pack.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-send-pack.txt @@ -8,12 +8,13 @@ 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>...] +[verse] +'git send-pack' [--all] [--dry-run] [--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. +Usually you would want to use 'git push', which is a +higher-level wrapper of this command, instead. See linkgit:git-push[1]. Invokes 'git-receive-pack' on a possibly remote repository, and updates it from the current repository, sending named refs. @@ -21,32 +22,35 @@ updates it from the current repository, sending named refs. OPTIONS ------- -\--receive-pack=<git-receive-pack>:: +--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>:: +--exec=<git-receive-pack>:: Same as \--receive-pack=<git-receive-pack>. -\--all:: +--all:: Instead of explicitly specifying which refs to update, - update all refs that locally exist. + update all heads that locally exist. -\--force:: +--dry-run:: + Do everything except actually send the updates. + +--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:: +--verbose:: Run verbosely. -\--thin:: - Spend extra cycles to minimize the number of objects to be sent. - Use it on slower connection. +--thin:: + Send a "thin" pack, which records objects in deltified form based + on objects not included in the pack to reduce network traffic. <host>:: A remote host to house the repository. When this @@ -70,7 +74,7 @@ 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 +Without '--all' and without any '<ref>', the heads 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 @@ -82,7 +86,9 @@ 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. +destination side. The rules used to match a ref are the same +rules used by 'git rev-parse' to resolve a symbolic ref +name. See linkgit:git-rev-parse[1]. - It is an error if <src> does not match exactly one of the local refs. @@ -100,24 +106,15 @@ destination side. 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", +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. +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 +Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite |