6 git-send-pack - Push objects over Git protocol to another repository
12 'git send-pack' [--all] [--dry-run] [--force] [--receive-pack=<git-receive-pack>] [--verbose] [--thin] [<host>:]<directory> [<ref>...]
16 Usually you would want to use 'git push', which is a
17 higher-level wrapper of this command, instead. See linkgit:git-push[1].
19 Invokes 'git-receive-pack' on a possibly remote repository, and
20 updates it from the current repository, sending named refs.
25 --receive-pack=<git-receive-pack>::
26 Path to the 'git-receive-pack' program on the remote
27 end. Sometimes useful when pushing to a remote
28 repository over ssh, and you do not have the program in
29 a directory on the default $PATH.
31 --exec=<git-receive-pack>::
32 Same as \--receive-pack=<git-receive-pack>.
35 Instead of explicitly specifying which refs to update,
36 update all heads that locally exist.
39 Take the list of refs from stdin, one per line. If there
40 are refs specified on the command line in addition to this
41 option, then the refs from stdin are processed after those
44 If '--stateless-rpc' is specified together with this option then
45 the list of refs must be in packet format (pkt-line). Each ref must
46 be in a separate packet, and the list must end with a flush packet.
49 Do everything except actually send the updates.
52 Usually, the command refuses to update a remote ref that
53 is not an ancestor of the local ref used to overwrite it.
54 This flag disables the check. What this means is that
55 the remote repository can lose commits; use it with
62 Send a "thin" pack, which records objects in deltified form based
63 on objects not included in the pack to reduce network traffic.
66 A remote host to house the repository. When this
67 part is specified, 'git-receive-pack' is invoked via
71 The repository to update.
74 The remote refs to update.
80 There are three ways to specify which refs to update on the
83 With '--all' flag, all refs that exist locally are transferred to
84 the remote side. You cannot specify any '<ref>' if you use
87 Without '--all' and without any '<ref>', the heads that exist
88 both on the local side and on the remote side are updated.
90 When one or more '<ref>' are specified explicitly (whether on the
91 command line or via `--stdin`), it can be either a
92 single pattern, or a pair of such pattern separated by a colon
93 ":" (this means that a ref name cannot have a colon in it). A
94 single pattern '<name>' is just a shorthand for '<name>:<name>'.
96 Each pattern pair consists of the source side (before the colon)
97 and the destination side (after the colon). The ref to be
98 pushed is determined by finding a match that matches the source
99 side, and where it is pushed is determined by using the
100 destination side. The rules used to match a ref are the same
101 rules used by 'git rev-parse' to resolve a symbolic ref
102 name. See linkgit:git-rev-parse[1].
104 - It is an error if <src> does not match exactly one of the
107 - It is an error if <dst> matches more than one remote refs.
109 - If <dst> does not match any remote ref, either
111 * it has to start with "refs/"; <dst> is used as the
112 destination literally in this case.
114 * <src> == <dst> and the ref that matched the <src> must not
115 exist in the set of remote refs; the ref matched <src>
116 locally is used as the name of the destination.
118 Without '--force', the <src> ref is stored at the remote only if
119 <dst> does not exist, or <dst> is a proper subset (i.e. an
120 ancestor) of <src>. This check, known as "fast-forward check",
121 is performed in order to avoid accidentally overwriting the
122 remote ref and lose other peoples' commits from there.
124 With '--force', the fast-forward check is disabled for all refs.
126 Optionally, a <ref> parameter can be prefixed with a plus '+' sign
127 to disable the fast-forward check only on that ref.
131 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite