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737 <h1>
738 git-send-pack(1) Manual Page
739 </h1>
740 <h2>NAME</h2>
741 <div class="sectionbody">
742 <p>git-send-pack -
743 Push objects over Git protocol to another repository
744 </p>
745 </div>
746 </div>
747 <div id="content">
748 <div class="sect1">
749 <h2 id="_synopsis">SYNOPSIS</h2>
750 <div class="sectionbody">
751 <div class="verseblock">
752 <pre class="content"><em>git send-pack</em> [--mirror] [--dry-run] [--force]
753 [--receive-pack=&lt;git-receive-pack&gt;]
754 [--verbose] [--thin] [--atomic]
755 [--[no-]signed | --signed=(true|false|if-asked)]
756 [&lt;host&gt;:]&lt;directory&gt; (--all | &lt;ref&gt;&#8230;)</pre>
757 <div class="attribution">
758 </div></div>
759 </div>
760 </div>
761 <div class="sect1">
762 <h2 id="_description">DESCRIPTION</h2>
763 <div class="sectionbody">
764 <div class="paragraph"><p>Usually you would want to use <em>git push</em>, which is a
765 higher-level wrapper of this command, instead. See <a href="git-push.html">git-push(1)</a>.</p></div>
766 <div class="paragraph"><p>Invokes <em>git-receive-pack</em> on a possibly remote repository, and
767 updates it from the current repository, sending named refs.</p></div>
768 </div>
769 </div>
770 <div class="sect1">
771 <h2 id="_options">OPTIONS</h2>
772 <div class="sectionbody">
773 <div class="dlist"><dl>
774 <dt class="hdlist1">
775 --receive-pack=&lt;git-receive-pack&gt;
776 </dt>
777 <dd>
779 Path to the <em>git-receive-pack</em> program on the remote
780 end. Sometimes useful when pushing to a remote
781 repository over ssh, and you do not have the program in
782 a directory on the default $PATH.
783 </p>
784 </dd>
785 <dt class="hdlist1">
786 --exec=&lt;git-receive-pack&gt;
787 </dt>
788 <dd>
790 Same as --receive-pack=&lt;git-receive-pack&gt;.
791 </p>
792 </dd>
793 <dt class="hdlist1">
794 --all
795 </dt>
796 <dd>
798 Instead of explicitly specifying which refs to update,
799 update all heads that locally exist.
800 </p>
801 </dd>
802 <dt class="hdlist1">
803 --stdin
804 </dt>
805 <dd>
807 Take the list of refs from stdin, one per line. If there
808 are refs specified on the command line in addition to this
809 option, then the refs from stdin are processed after those
810 on the command line.
811 </p>
812 <div class="paragraph"><p>If <code>--stateless-rpc</code> is specified together with this option then
813 the list of refs must be in packet format (pkt-line). Each ref must
814 be in a separate packet, and the list must end with a flush packet.</p></div>
815 </dd>
816 <dt class="hdlist1">
817 --dry-run
818 </dt>
819 <dd>
821 Do everything except actually send the updates.
822 </p>
823 </dd>
824 <dt class="hdlist1">
825 --force
826 </dt>
827 <dd>
829 Usually, the command refuses to update a remote ref that
830 is not an ancestor of the local ref used to overwrite it.
831 This flag disables the check. This means that
832 the remote repository can lose commits; use it with
833 care.
834 </p>
835 </dd>
836 <dt class="hdlist1">
837 --verbose
838 </dt>
839 <dd>
841 Run verbosely.
842 </p>
843 </dd>
844 <dt class="hdlist1">
845 --thin
846 </dt>
847 <dd>
849 Send a "thin" pack, which records objects in deltified form based
850 on objects not included in the pack to reduce network traffic.
851 </p>
852 </dd>
853 <dt class="hdlist1">
854 --atomic
855 </dt>
856 <dd>
858 Use an atomic transaction for updating the refs. If any of the refs
859 fails to update then the entire push will fail without changing any
860 refs.
861 </p>
862 </dd>
863 <dt class="hdlist1">
864 --[no-]signed
865 </dt>
866 <dt class="hdlist1">
867 --signed=(true|false|if-asked)
868 </dt>
869 <dd>
871 GPG-sign the push request to update refs on the receiving
872 side, to allow it to be checked by the hooks and/or be
873 logged. If <code>false</code> or <code>--no-signed</code>, no signing will be
874 attempted. If <code>true</code> or <code>--signed</code>, the push will fail if the
875 server does not support signed pushes. If set to <code>if-asked</code>,
876 sign if and only if the server supports signed pushes. The push
877 will also fail if the actual call to <code>gpg --sign</code> fails. See
878 <a href="git-receive-pack.html">git-receive-pack(1)</a> for the details on the receiving end.
879 </p>
880 </dd>
881 <dt class="hdlist1">
882 --push-option=&lt;string&gt;
883 </dt>
884 <dd>
886 Pass the specified string as a push option for consumption by
887 hooks on the server side. If the server doesn&#8217;t support push
888 options, error out. See <a href="git-push.html">git-push(1)</a> and
889 <a href="githooks.html">githooks(5)</a> for details.
890 </p>
891 </dd>
892 <dt class="hdlist1">
893 &lt;host&gt;
894 </dt>
895 <dd>
897 A remote host to house the repository. When this
898 part is specified, <em>git-receive-pack</em> is invoked via
899 ssh.
900 </p>
901 </dd>
902 <dt class="hdlist1">
903 &lt;directory&gt;
904 </dt>
905 <dd>
907 The repository to update.
908 </p>
909 </dd>
910 <dt class="hdlist1">
911 &lt;ref&gt;&#8230;
912 </dt>
913 <dd>
915 The remote refs to update.
916 </p>
917 </dd>
918 </dl></div>
919 </div>
920 </div>
921 <div class="sect1">
922 <h2 id="_specifying_the_refs">SPECIFYING THE REFS</h2>
923 <div class="sectionbody">
924 <div class="paragraph"><p>There are three ways to specify which refs to update on the
925 remote end.</p></div>
926 <div class="paragraph"><p>With the <code>--all</code> flag, all refs that exist locally are transferred to
927 the remote side. You cannot specify any <em>&lt;ref&gt;</em> if you use
928 this flag.</p></div>
929 <div class="paragraph"><p>Without <code>--all</code> and without any <em>&lt;ref&gt;</em>, the heads that exist
930 both on the local side and on the remote side are updated.</p></div>
931 <div class="paragraph"><p>When one or more <em>&lt;ref&gt;</em> are specified explicitly (whether on the
932 command line or via <code>--stdin</code>), it can be either a
933 single pattern, or a pair of such patterns separated by a colon
934 ":" (this means that a ref name cannot have a colon in it). A
935 single pattern <em>&lt;name&gt;</em> is just shorthand for <em>&lt;name&gt;:&lt;name&gt;</em>.</p></div>
936 <div class="paragraph"><p>Each pattern pair consists of the source side (before the colon)
937 and the destination side (after the colon). The ref to be
938 pushed is determined by finding a match that matches the source
939 side, and where it is pushed is determined by using the
940 destination side. The rules used to match a ref are the same
941 rules used by <em>git rev-parse</em> to resolve a symbolic ref
942 name. See <a href="git-rev-parse.html">git-rev-parse(1)</a>.</p></div>
943 <div class="ulist"><ul>
944 <li>
946 It is an error if &lt;src&gt; does not match exactly one of the
947 local refs.
948 </p>
949 </li>
950 <li>
952 It is an error if &lt;dst&gt; matches more than one remote ref.
953 </p>
954 </li>
955 <li>
957 If &lt;dst&gt; does not match any remote ref, either
958 </p>
959 <div class="ulist"><ul>
960 <li>
962 it has to start with "refs/"; &lt;dst&gt; is used as the
963 destination literally in this case.
964 </p>
965 </li>
966 <li>
968 &lt;src&gt; == &lt;dst&gt; and the ref that matched the &lt;src&gt; must not
969 exist in the set of remote refs; the ref matched &lt;src&gt;
970 locally is used as the name of the destination.
971 </p>
972 </li>
973 </ul></div>
974 </li>
975 </ul></div>
976 <div class="paragraph"><p>Without <code>--force</code>, the &lt;src&gt; ref is stored at the remote only if
977 &lt;dst&gt; does not exist, or &lt;dst&gt; is a proper subset (i.e. an
978 ancestor) of &lt;src&gt;. This check, known as the "fast-forward check",
979 is performed to avoid accidentally overwriting the
980 remote ref and losing other people&#8217;s commits from there.</p></div>
981 <div class="paragraph"><p>With <code>--force</code>, the fast-forward check is disabled for all refs.</p></div>
982 <div class="paragraph"><p>Optionally, a &lt;ref&gt; parameter can be prefixed with a plus <em>+</em> sign
983 to disable the fast-forward check only on that ref.</p></div>
984 </div>
985 </div>
986 <div class="sect1">
987 <h2 id="_git">GIT</h2>
988 <div class="sectionbody">
989 <div class="paragraph"><p>Part of the <a href="git.html">git(1)</a> suite</p></div>
990 </div>
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