1git-clone-pack(1) 2================= 3v0.1, July 2005 4 5NAME 6---- 7git-clone-pack - Clones a repository by receiving packed objects. 8 9 10SYNOPSIS 11-------- 12'git-clone-pack' [-q] [--exec=<git-upload-pack>] [<host>:]<directory> [<head>...] 13 14DESCRIPTION 15----------- 16Clones a repository into the current repository by invoking 17'git-upload-pack', possibly on the remote host via ssh, in 18the named repository, and invoking 'git-unpack-objects' locally 19to receive the pack. 20 21OPTIONS 22------- 23-q:: 24 Pass '-q' flag to 'git-unpack-objects'; this makes the 25 cloning process less verbose. 26 27--exec=<git-upload-pack>:: 28 Use this to specify the path to 'git-upload-pack' on the 29 remote side, if it is not found on your $PATH. 30 Installations of sshd ignore the user's environment 31 setup scripts for login shells (e.g. .bash_profile) and 32 your privately installed GIT may not be found on the system 33 default $PATH. Another workaround suggested is to set 34 up your $PATH in ".bashrc", but this flag is for people 35 who do not want to pay the overhead for non-interactive 36 shells by having a lean .bashrc file (they set most of 37 the things up in .bash_profile). 38 39<host>:: 40 A remote host that houses the repository. When this 41 part is specified, 'git-upload-pack' is invoked via 42 ssh. 43 44<directory>:: 45 The repository to sync from. 46 47<head>...:: 48 The heads to update. This is relative to $GIT_DIR 49 (e.g. "HEAD", "refs/heads/master"). When unspecified, 50 all heads are updated to match the remote repository. 51 52 53Author 54------ 55Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> 56 57Documentation 58-------------- 59Documentation by Junio C Hamano. 60 61 62GIT 63--- 64Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite 65