1git-upload-pack(1) 2================== 3 4NAME 5---- 6git-upload-pack - Send objects packed back to git-fetch-pack 7 8 9SYNOPSIS 10-------- 11'git upload-pack' [--strict] [--timeout=<n>] <directory> 12 13DESCRIPTION 14----------- 15Invoked by 'git-fetch-pack', learns what 16objects the other side is missing, and sends them after packing. 17 18This command is usually not invoked directly by the end user. 19The UI for the protocol is on the 'git-fetch-pack' side, and the 20program pair is meant to be used to pull updates from a remote 21repository. For push operations, see 'git-send-pack'. 22 23After finishing the operation successfully, `post-upload-pack` 24hook is called (see linkgit:githooks[5]). 25 26OPTIONS 27------- 28 29--strict:: 30 Do not try <directory>/.git/ if <directory> is no git directory. 31 32--timeout=<n>:: 33 Interrupt transfer after <n> seconds of inactivity. 34 35<directory>:: 36 The repository to sync from. 37 38Author 39------ 40Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> 41 42Documentation 43-------------- 44Documentation by Junio C Hamano. 45 46GIT 47--- 48Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite