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+git-send-pack(1)
+================
+v0.1, July 2005
+
+NAME
+----
+git-send-pack - Push missing objects packed.
+
+
+SYNOPSIS
+--------
+'git-send-pack' [--all] [--exec=<git-receive-pack>] [<host>:]<directory> [<head>...]
+
+DESCRIPTION
+-----------
+Invokes 'git-receive-pack' on a possibly remote repository, and
+updates it from the current repository, sending named heads.
+
+
+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.
+
+<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.
+
+<head>...:
+	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 '<head>' if you use
+this flag.
+
+Without '--all' and without any '<head>', 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
+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
+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 <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.
+
+
+Author
+------
+Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
+
+Documentation
+--------------
+Documentation by Junio C Hamano.
+
+GIT
+---
+Part of the link:git.html[git] suite