1git-push(1) 2=========== 3 4NAME 5---- 6git-push - Update remote refs along with associated objects 7 8 9SYNOPSIS 10-------- 11[verse] 12'git-push' [--all] [--dry-run] [--tags] [--receive-pack=<git-receive-pack>] 13 [--repo=all] [-f | --force] [-v] [<repository> <refspec>...] 14 15DESCRIPTION 16----------- 17 18Updates remote refs using local refs, while sending objects 19necessary to complete the given refs. 20 21You can make interesting things happen to a repository 22every time you push into it, by setting up 'hooks' there. See 23documentation for gitlink:git-receive-pack[1]. 24 25 26OPTIONS 27------- 28<repository>:: 29 The "remote" repository that is destination of a push 30 operation. See the section <<URLS,GIT URLS>> below. 31 32<refspec>:: 33 The canonical format of a <refspec> parameter is 34 `+?<src>:<dst>`; that is, an optional plus `+`, followed 35 by the source ref, followed by a colon `:`, followed by 36 the destination ref. 37+ 38The <src> side can be an 39arbitrary "SHA1 expression" that can be used as an 40argument to `git-cat-file -t`. E.g. `master~4` (push 41four parents before the current master head). 42+ 43The local ref that matches <src> is used 44to fast forward the remote ref that matches <dst>. If 45the optional plus `+` is used, the remote ref is updated 46even if it does not result in a fast forward update. 47+ 48Note: If no explicit refspec is found, (that is neither 49on the command line nor in any Push line of the 50corresponding remotes file---see below), then all the 51heads that exist both on the local side and on the remote 52side are updated. 53+ 54`tag <tag>` means the same as `refs/tags/<tag>:refs/tags/<tag>`. 55+ 56A parameter <ref> without a colon pushes the <ref> from the source 57repository to the destination repository under the same name. 58+ 59Pushing an empty <src> allows you to delete the <dst> ref from 60the remote repository. 61 62\--all:: 63 Instead of naming each ref to push, specifies that all 64 refs under `$GIT_DIR/refs/heads/` be pushed. 65 66\--dry-run:: 67 Do everything except actually send the updates. 68 69\--tags:: 70 All refs under `$GIT_DIR/refs/tags` are pushed, in 71 addition to refspecs explicitly listed on the command 72 line. 73 74\--receive-pack=<git-receive-pack>:: 75 Path to the 'git-receive-pack' program on the remote 76 end. Sometimes useful when pushing to a remote 77 repository over ssh, and you do not have the program in 78 a directory on the default $PATH. 79 80\--exec=<git-receive-pack>:: 81 Same as \--receive-pack=<git-receive-pack>. 82 83-f, \--force:: 84 Usually, the command refuses to update a remote ref that is 85 not an ancestor of the local ref used to overwrite it. 86 This flag disables the check. This can cause the 87 remote repository to lose commits; use it with care. 88 89\--repo=<repo>:: 90 When no repository is specified the command defaults to 91 "origin"; this overrides it. 92 93\--thin, \--no-thin:: 94 These options are passed to `git-send-pack`. Thin 95 transfer spends extra cycles to minimize the number of 96 objects to be sent and meant to be used on slower connection. 97 98-v:: 99 Run verbosely. 100 101include::urls-remotes.txt[] 102 103 104Examples 105-------- 106 107git push origin master:: 108 Find a ref that matches `master` in the source repository 109 (most likely, it would find `refs/heads/master`), and update 110 the same ref (e.g. `refs/heads/master`) in `origin` repository 111 with it. 112 113git push origin :experimental:: 114 Find a ref that matches `experimental` in the `origin` repository 115 (e.g. `refs/heads/experimental`), and delete it. 116 117git push origin master:satellite/master:: 118 Find a ref that matches `master` in the source repository 119 (most likely, it would find `refs/heads/master`), and update 120 the ref that matches `satellite/master` (most likely, it would 121 be `refs/remotes/satellite/master`) in `origin` repository with it. 122 123git push origin master:refs/heads/experimental:: 124 Create the branch `experimental` in the `origin` repository 125 by copying the current `master` branch. This form is usually 126 needed to create a new branch in the remote repository as 127 there is no `experimental` branch to match. 128 129Author 130------ 131Written by Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>, later rewritten in C 132by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> 133 134Documentation 135-------------- 136Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>. 137 138GIT 139--- 140Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite