Documentation / git-clone-pack.txton commit GIT 0.99.9l aka 1.0rc4 (423325a)
   1git-clone-pack(1)
   2=================
   3
   4NAME
   5----
   6git-clone-pack - Clones a repository by receiving packed objects.
   7
   8
   9SYNOPSIS
  10--------
  11'git-clone-pack' [--exec=<git-upload-pack>] [<host>:]<directory> [<head>...]
  12
  13DESCRIPTION
  14-----------
  15Clones a repository into the current repository by invoking
  16'git-upload-pack', possibly on the remote host via ssh, in
  17the named repository, and stores the sent pack in the local
  18repository.
  19
  20OPTIONS
  21-------
  22--exec=<git-upload-pack>::
  23        Use this to specify the path to 'git-upload-pack' on the
  24        remote side, if it is not found on your $PATH.
  25        Installations of sshd ignore the user's environment
  26        setup scripts for login shells (e.g. .bash_profile) and
  27        your privately installed git may not be found on the system
  28        default $PATH.  Another workaround suggested is to set
  29        up your $PATH in ".bashrc", but this flag is for people
  30        who do not want to pay the overhead for non-interactive
  31        shells by having a lean .bashrc file (they set most of
  32        the things up in .bash_profile).
  33
  34<host>::
  35        A remote host that houses the repository.  When this
  36        part is specified, 'git-upload-pack' is invoked via
  37        ssh.
  38
  39<directory>::
  40        The repository to sync from.
  41
  42<head>...::
  43        The heads to update.  This is relative to $GIT_DIR
  44        (e.g. "HEAD", "refs/heads/master").  When unspecified,
  45        all heads are updated to match the remote repository.
  46
  47
  48Author
  49------
  50Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
  51
  52Documentation
  53--------------
  54Documentation by Junio C Hamano.
  55
  56
  57GIT
  58---
  59Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite
  60