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>]
13 [--verbose] [--thin] [--atomic] [--signed]
14 [<host>:]<directory> [<ref>...]
18 Usually you would want to use 'git push', which is a
19 higher-level wrapper of this command, instead. See linkgit:git-push[1].
21 Invokes 'git-receive-pack' on a possibly remote repository, and
22 updates it from the current repository, sending named refs.
27 --receive-pack=<git-receive-pack>::
28 Path to the 'git-receive-pack' program on the remote
29 end. Sometimes useful when pushing to a remote
30 repository over ssh, and you do not have the program in
31 a directory on the default $PATH.
33 --exec=<git-receive-pack>::
34 Same as --receive-pack=<git-receive-pack>.
37 Instead of explicitly specifying which refs to update,
38 update all heads that locally exist.
41 Take the list of refs from stdin, one per line. If there
42 are refs specified on the command line in addition to this
43 option, then the refs from stdin are processed after those
46 If '--stateless-rpc' is specified together with this option then
47 the list of refs must be in packet format (pkt-line). Each ref must
48 be in a separate packet, and the list must end with a flush packet.
51 Do everything except actually send the updates.
54 Usually, the command refuses to update a remote ref that
55 is not an ancestor of the local ref used to overwrite it.
56 This flag disables the check. What this means is that
57 the remote repository can lose commits; use it with
64 Send a "thin" pack, which records objects in deltified form based
65 on objects not included in the pack to reduce network traffic.
68 Use an atomic transaction for updating the refs. If any of the refs
69 fails to update then the entire push will fail without changing any
73 GPG-sign the push request to update refs on the receiving
74 side, to allow it to be checked by the hooks and/or be
75 logged. See linkgit:git-receive-pack[1] for the details
76 on the receiving end. If the attempt to sign with `gpg` fails,
77 or if the server does not support signed pushes, the push will
81 A remote host to house the repository. When this
82 part is specified, 'git-receive-pack' is invoked via
86 The repository to update.
89 The remote refs to update.
95 There are three ways to specify which refs to update on the
98 With '--all' flag, all refs that exist locally are transferred to
99 the remote side. You cannot specify any '<ref>' if you use
102 Without '--all' and without any '<ref>', the heads that exist
103 both on the local side and on the remote side are updated.
105 When one or more '<ref>' are specified explicitly (whether on the
106 command line or via `--stdin`), it can be either a
107 single pattern, or a pair of such pattern separated by a colon
108 ":" (this means that a ref name cannot have a colon in it). A
109 single pattern '<name>' is just a shorthand for '<name>:<name>'.
111 Each pattern pair consists of the source side (before the colon)
112 and the destination side (after the colon). The ref to be
113 pushed is determined by finding a match that matches the source
114 side, and where it is pushed is determined by using the
115 destination side. The rules used to match a ref are the same
116 rules used by 'git rev-parse' to resolve a symbolic ref
117 name. See linkgit:git-rev-parse[1].
119 - It is an error if <src> does not match exactly one of the
122 - It is an error if <dst> matches more than one remote refs.
124 - If <dst> does not match any remote ref, either
126 * it has to start with "refs/"; <dst> is used as the
127 destination literally in this case.
129 * <src> == <dst> and the ref that matched the <src> must not
130 exist in the set of remote refs; the ref matched <src>
131 locally is used as the name of the destination.
133 Without '--force', the <src> ref is stored at the remote only if
134 <dst> does not exist, or <dst> is a proper subset (i.e. an
135 ancestor) of <src>. This check, known as "fast-forward check",
136 is performed in order to avoid accidentally overwriting the
137 remote ref and lose other peoples' commits from there.
139 With '--force', the fast-forward check is disabled for all refs.
141 Optionally, a <ref> parameter can be prefixed with a plus '+' sign
142 to disable the fast-forward check only on that ref.
146 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite