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 404 <div id="header">
 405 <h1>
 406 git-send-pack(1) Manual Page
 407 </h1>
 408 <h2>NAME</h2>
 409 <div class="sectionbody">
 410 <p>git-send-pack -
 411    Push objects over git protocol to another repository
 412 </p>
 413 </div>
 414 </div>
 415 <h2 id="_synopsis">SYNOPSIS</h2>
 416 <div class="sectionbody">
 417 <div class="paragraph"><p><em>git send-pack</em> [--all] [--dry-run] [--force] [--receive-pack=&lt;git-receive-pack&gt;] [--verbose] [--thin] [&lt;host&gt;:]&lt;directory&gt; [&lt;ref&gt;&#8230;]</p></div>
 418 </div>
 419 <h2 id="_description">DESCRIPTION</h2>
 420 <div class="sectionbody">
 421 <div class="paragraph"><p>Usually you would want to use <em>git push</em>, which is a
 422 higher-level wrapper of this command, instead. See <a href="git-push.html">git-push(1)</a>.</p></div>
 423 <div class="paragraph"><p>Invokes <em>git-receive-pack</em> on a possibly remote repository, and
 424 updates it from the current repository, sending named refs.</p></div>
 425 </div>
 426 <h2 id="_options">OPTIONS</h2>
 427 <div class="sectionbody">
 428 <div class="dlist"><dl>
 429 <dt class="hdlist1">
 430 --receive-pack=&lt;git-receive-pack&gt;
 431 </dt>
 432 <dd>
 433 <p>
 434         Path to the <em>git-receive-pack</em> program on the remote
 435         end.  Sometimes useful when pushing to a remote
 436         repository over ssh, and you do not have the program in
 437         a directory on the default $PATH.
 438 </p>
 439 </dd>
 440 <dt class="hdlist1">
 441 --exec=&lt;git-receive-pack&gt;
 442 </dt>
 443 <dd>
 444 <p>
 445         Same as --receive-pack=&lt;git-receive-pack&gt;.
 446 </p>
 447 </dd>
 448 <dt class="hdlist1">
 449 --all
 450 </dt>
 451 <dd>
 452 <p>
 453         Instead of explicitly specifying which refs to update,
 454         update all heads that locally exist.
 455 </p>
 456 </dd>
 457 <dt class="hdlist1">
 458 --dry-run
 459 </dt>
 460 <dd>
 461 <p>
 462         Do everything except actually send the updates.
 463 </p>
 464 </dd>
 465 <dt class="hdlist1">
 466 --force
 467 </dt>
 468 <dd>
 469 <p>
 470         Usually, the command refuses to update a remote ref that
 471         is not an ancestor of the local ref used to overwrite it.
 472         This flag disables the check.  What this means is that
 473         the remote repository can lose commits; use it with
 474         care.
 475 </p>
 476 </dd>
 477 <dt class="hdlist1">
 478 --verbose
 479 </dt>
 480 <dd>
 481 <p>
 482         Run verbosely.
 483 </p>
 484 </dd>
 485 <dt class="hdlist1">
 486 --thin
 487 </dt>
 488 <dd>
 489 <p>
 490         Send a "thin" pack, which records objects in deltified form based
 491         on objects not included in the pack to reduce network traffic.
 492 </p>
 493 </dd>
 494 <dt class="hdlist1">
 495 &lt;host&gt;
 496 </dt>
 497 <dd>
 498 <p>
 499         A remote host to house the repository.  When this
 500         part is specified, <em>git-receive-pack</em> is invoked via
 501         ssh.
 502 </p>
 503 </dd>
 504 <dt class="hdlist1">
 505 &lt;directory&gt;
 506 </dt>
 507 <dd>
 508 <p>
 509         The repository to update.
 510 </p>
 511 </dd>
 512 <dt class="hdlist1">
 513 &lt;ref&gt;&#8230;
 514 </dt>
 515 <dd>
 516 <p>
 517         The remote refs to update.
 518 </p>
 519 </dd>
 520 </dl></div>
 521 </div>
 522 <h2 id="_specifying_the_refs">Specifying the Refs</h2>
 523 <div class="sectionbody">
 524 <div class="paragraph"><p>There are three ways to specify which refs to update on the
 525 remote end.</p></div>
 526 <div class="paragraph"><p>With <em>--all</em> flag, all refs that exist locally are transferred to
 527 the remote side.  You cannot specify any <em>&lt;ref&gt;</em> if you use
 528 this flag.</p></div>
 529 <div class="paragraph"><p>Without <em>--all</em> and without any <em>&lt;ref&gt;</em>, the heads that exist
 530 both on the local side and on the remote side are updated.</p></div>
 531 <div class="paragraph"><p>When one or more <em>&lt;ref&gt;</em> are specified explicitly, it can be either a
 532 single pattern, or a pair of such pattern separated by a colon
 533 ":" (this means that a ref name cannot have a colon in it).  A
 534 single pattern <em>&lt;name&gt;</em> is just a shorthand for <em>&lt;name&gt;:&lt;name&gt;</em>.</p></div>
 535 <div class="paragraph"><p>Each pattern pair consists of the source side (before the colon)
 536 and the destination side (after the colon).  The ref to be
 537 pushed is determined by finding a match that matches the source
 538 side, and where it is pushed is determined by using the
 539 destination side. The rules used to match a ref are the same
 540 rules used by <em>git rev-parse</em> to resolve a symbolic ref
 541 name. See <a href="git-rev-parse.html">git-rev-parse(1)</a>.</p></div>
 542 <div class="ulist"><ul>
 543 <li>
 544 <p>
 545 It is an error if &lt;src&gt; does not match exactly one of the
 546    local refs.
 547 </p>
 548 </li>
 549 <li>
 550 <p>
 551 It is an error if &lt;dst&gt; matches more than one remote refs.
 552 </p>
 553 </li>
 554 <li>
 555 <p>
 556 If &lt;dst&gt; does not match any remote ref, either
 557 </p>
 558 <div class="ulist"><ul>
 559 <li>
 560 <p>
 561 it has to start with "refs/"; &lt;dst&gt; is used as the
 562      destination literally in this case.
 563 </p>
 564 </li>
 565 <li>
 566 <p>
 567 &lt;src&gt; == &lt;dst&gt; and the ref that matched the &lt;src&gt; must not
 568      exist in the set of remote refs; the ref matched &lt;src&gt;
 569      locally is used as the name of the destination.
 570 </p>
 571 </li>
 572 </ul></div>
 573 </li>
 574 </ul></div>
 575 <div class="paragraph"><p>Without <em>--force</em>, the &lt;src&gt; ref is stored at the remote only if
 576 &lt;dst&gt; does not exist, or &lt;dst&gt; is a proper subset (i.e. an
 577 ancestor) of &lt;src&gt;.  This check, known as "fast-forward check",
 578 is performed in order to avoid accidentally overwriting the
 579 remote ref and lose other peoples' commits from there.</p></div>
 580 <div class="paragraph"><p>With <em>--force</em>, the fast-forward check is disabled for all refs.</p></div>
 581 <div class="paragraph"><p>Optionally, a &lt;ref&gt; parameter can be prefixed with a plus <em>+</em> sign
 582 to disable the fast-forward check only on that ref.</p></div>
 583 </div>
 584 <h2 id="_git">GIT</h2>
 585 <div class="sectionbody">
 586 <div class="paragraph"><p>Part of the <a href="git.html">git(1)</a> suite</p></div>
 587 </div>
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