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