7 git-send-pack - Push missing objects packed.
12 'git-send-pack' [--all] [--exec=<git-receive-pack>] [<host>:]<directory> [<head>...]
16 Invokes 'git-receive-pack' on a possibly remote repository, and
17 updates it from the current repository, sending named heads.
22 --exec=<git-receive-pack>::
23 Path to the 'git-receive-pack' program on the remote
24 end. Sometimes useful when pushing to a remote
25 repository over ssh, and you do not have the program in
26 a directory on the default $PATH.
29 Instead of explicitly specifying which refs to update,
30 update all refs that locally exist.
33 A remote host to house the repository. When this
34 part is specified, 'git-receive-pack' is invoked via
38 The repository to update.
41 The remote refs to update.
47 There are three ways to specify which refs to update on the
50 With '--all' flag, all refs that exist locally are transfered to
51 the remote side. You cannot specify any '<head>' if you use
54 Without '--all' and without any '<head>', the refs that exist
55 both on the local side and on the remote side are updated.
57 When '<head>'s are specified explicitly, it can be either a
58 single pattern, or a pair of such pattern separated by a colon
59 ':' (this means that a ref name cannot have a colon in it). A
60 single pattern '<name>' is just a shorthand for '<name>:<name>'.
61 Each pattern pair consists of the source side (before the colon)
62 and the destination side (after the colon). The ref that is
63 pushed is determined by finding a match that matches the source
64 side, and where it is pushed is determined by using the
67 - It is an error if <src> does not match exactly one of local
70 - It is an error if <dst> matches more than one remote refs.
72 - If <dst> does not match any remote ref, either
74 - it has to start with "refs/"; <dst> is used as the
75 destination literally in this case.
77 - <src> == <dst> and the ref that matched the <src> must not
78 exist in the set of remote refs; the ref matched <src>
79 locally is used as the name of the destination.
84 Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
88 Documentation by Junio C Hamano.
92 Part of the link:git.html[git] suite