6 git-push - Update remote refs along with associated objects
12 'git-push' [--all] [--tags] [--receive-pack=<git-receive-pack>]
13 [--repo=all] [-f | --force] [-v] [<repository> <refspec>...]
18 Updates remote refs using local refs, while sending objects
19 necessary to complete the given refs.
21 You can make interesting things happen to a repository
22 every time you push into it, by setting up 'hooks' there. See
23 documentation for gitlink:git-receive-pack[1].
29 The "remote" repository that is destination of a push
30 operation. See the section <<URLS,GIT URLS>> below.
33 The canonical format of a <refspec> parameter is
34 `+?<src>:<dst>`; that is, an optional plus `+`, followed
35 by the source ref, followed by a colon `:`, followed by
38 The <src> side can be an
39 arbitrary "SHA1 expression" that can be used as an
40 argument to `git-cat-file -t`. E.g. `master~4` (push
41 four parents before the current master head).
43 The local ref that matches <src> is used
44 to fast forward the remote ref that matches <dst>. If
45 the optional plus `+` is used, the remote ref is updated
46 even if it does not result in a fast forward update.
48 Note: If no explicit refspec is found, (that is neither
49 on the command line nor in any Push line of the
50 corresponding remotes file---see below), then all the
51 heads that exist both on the local side and on the remote
54 `tag <tag>` means the same as `refs/tags/<tag>:refs/tags/<tag>`.
56 A parameter <ref> without a colon pushes the <ref> from the source
57 repository to the destination repository under the same name.
59 Pushing an empty <src> allows you to delete the <dst> ref from
60 the remote repository.
63 Instead of naming each ref to push, specifies that all
64 refs under `$GIT_DIR/refs/heads/` be pushed.
67 All refs under `$GIT_DIR/refs/tags` are pushed, in
68 addition to refspecs explicitly listed on the command
71 \--receive-pack=<git-receive-pack>::
72 Path to the 'git-receive-pack' program on the remote
73 end. Sometimes useful when pushing to a remote
74 repository over ssh, and you do not have the program in
75 a directory on the default $PATH.
77 \--exec=<git-receive-pack>::
78 Same as \--receive-pack=<git-receive-pack>.
81 Usually, the command refuses to update a remote ref that is
82 not an ancestor of the local ref used to overwrite it.
83 This flag disables the check. This can cause the
84 remote repository to lose commits; use it with care.
87 When no repository is specified the command defaults to
88 "origin"; this overrides it.
91 These options are passed to `git-send-pack`. Thin
92 transfer spends extra cycles to minimize the number of
93 objects to be sent and meant to be used on slower connection.
98 include::urls-remotes.txt[]
104 git push origin master::
105 Find a ref that matches `master` in the source repository
106 (most likely, it would find `refs/heads/master`), and update
107 the same ref (e.g. `refs/heads/master`) in `origin` repository
110 git push origin :experimental::
111 Find a ref that matches `experimental` in the `origin` repository
112 (e.g. `refs/heads/experimental`), and delete it.
114 git push origin master:satellite/master::
115 Find a ref that matches `master` in the source repository
116 (most likely, it would find `refs/heads/master`), and update
117 the ref that matches `satellite/master` (most likely, it would
118 be `refs/remotes/satellite/master`) in `origin` repository with it.
120 git push origin master:refs/heads/experimental::
121 Create the branch `experimental` in the `origin` repository
122 by copying the current `master` branch. This form is usually
123 needed to create a new branch in the remote repository as
124 there is no `experimental` branch to match.
128 Written by Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>, later rewritten in C
129 by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
133 Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
137 Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite