6 git-send-pack - Push missing objects packed
11 'git-send-pack' [--all] [--force] [--exec=<git-receive-pack>] [<host>:]<directory> [<ref>...]
15 Invokes 'git-receive-pack' on a possibly remote repository, and
16 updates it from the current repository, sending named refs.
21 --exec=<git-receive-pack>::
22 Path to the 'git-receive-pack' program on the remote
23 end. Sometimes useful when pushing to a remote
24 repository over ssh, and you do not have the program in
25 a directory on the default $PATH.
28 Instead of explicitly specifying which refs to update,
29 update all refs that locally exist.
32 Usually, the command refuses to update a remote ref that
33 is not an ancestor of the local ref used to overwrite it.
34 This flag disables the check. What this means is that
35 the remote repository can lose commits; use it with
39 A remote host to house the repository. When this
40 part is specified, 'git-receive-pack' is invoked via
44 The repository to update.
47 The remote refs to update.
53 There are three ways to specify which refs to update on the
56 With '--all' flag, all refs that exist locally are transferred to
57 the remote side. You cannot specify any '<ref>' if you use
60 Without '--all' and without any '<ref>', the refs that exist
61 both on the local side and on the remote side are updated.
63 When one or more '<ref>' are specified explicitly, it can be either a
64 single pattern, or a pair of such pattern separated by a colon
65 ":" (this means that a ref name cannot have a colon in it). A
66 single pattern '<name>' is just a shorthand for '<name>:<name>'.
68 Each pattern pair consists of the source side (before the colon)
69 and the destination side (after the colon). The ref to be
70 pushed is determined by finding a match that matches the source
71 side, and where it is pushed is determined by using the
74 - It is an error if <src> does not match exactly one of the
77 - It is an error if <dst> matches more than one remote refs.
79 - If <dst> does not match any remote ref, either
81 * it has to start with "refs/"; <dst> is used as the
82 destination literally in this case.
84 * <src> == <dst> and the ref that matched the <src> must not
85 exist in the set of remote refs; the ref matched <src>
86 locally is used as the name of the destination.
88 Without '--force', the <src> ref is stored at the remote only if
89 <dst> does not exist, or <dst> is a proper subset (i.e. an
90 ancestor) of <src>. This check, known as "fast forward check",
91 is performed in order to avoid accidentally overwriting the
92 remote ref and lose other peoples' commits from there.
94 With '--force', the fast forward check is disabled for all refs.
96 Optionally, a <ref> parameter can be prefixed with a plus '+' sign
97 to disable the fast-forward check only on that ref.
102 Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
106 Documentation by Junio C Hamano.
110 Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite