X-Git-Url: https://git.tokkee.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=Documentation%2Fgit-send-pack.txt;h=777515b12e5e3b276285d3b034f91aab5c1e34cc;hb=cfc4ba33e3cc95a30cb808eec1b54b52450c3bdf;hp=3271e88183e2b4c8551bb48caff54d3223991f79;hpb=39bd2eb56af89d43a08ba54699d9a1849ab57b39;p=git.git diff --git a/Documentation/git-send-pack.txt b/Documentation/git-send-pack.txt index 3271e8818..777515b12 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-send-pack.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-send-pack.txt @@ -8,11 +8,11 @@ git-send-pack - Push objects over git protocol to another repository SYNOPSIS -------- -'git-send-pack' [--all] [--force] [--receive-pack=] [--verbose] [--thin] [:] [...] +'git-send-pack' [--all] [--dry-run] [--force] [--receive-pack=] [--verbose] [--thin] [:] [...] DESCRIPTION ----------- -Usually you would want to use gitlink:git-push[1] which is a +Usually you would want to use linkgit:git-push[1] which is a higher level wrapper of this command instead. Invokes 'git-receive-pack' on a possibly remote repository, and @@ -34,6 +34,9 @@ OPTIONS Instead of explicitly specifying which refs to update, update all heads that locally exist. +\--dry-run:: + Do everything except actually send the updates. + \--force:: Usually, the command refuses to update a remote ref that is not an ancestor of the local ref used to overwrite it. @@ -82,7 +85,9 @@ Each pattern pair consists of the source side (before the colon) and the destination side (after the colon). The ref to be pushed is determined by finding a match that matches the source side, and where it is pushed is determined by using the -destination side. +destination side. The rules used to match a ref are the same +rules used by linkgit:git-rev-parse[1] to resolve a symbolic ref +name. - It is an error if does not match exactly one of the local refs. @@ -120,4 +125,4 @@ Documentation by Junio C Hamano. GIT --- -Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite +Part of the linkgit:git[7] suite