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] [--keep] [--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--keep:: 27 Do not invoke 'git-unpack-objects' on received data, but 28 create a single packfile out of it instead, and store it 29 in the object database. 30 31--exec=<git-upload-pack>:: 32 Use this to specify the path to 'git-upload-pack' on the 33 remote side, if it is not found on your $PATH. 34 Installations of sshd ignore the user's environment 35 setup scripts for login shells (e.g. .bash_profile) and 36 your privately installed git may not be found on the system 37 default $PATH. Another workaround suggested is to set 38 up your $PATH in ".bashrc", but this flag is for people 39 who do not want to pay the overhead for non-interactive 40 shells by having a lean .bashrc file (they set most of 41 the things up in .bash_profile). 42 43<host>:: 44 A remote host that houses the repository. When this 45 part is specified, 'git-upload-pack' is invoked via 46 ssh. 47 48<directory>:: 49 The repository to sync from. 50 51<head>...:: 52 The heads to update. This is relative to $GIT_DIR 53 (e.g. "HEAD", "refs/heads/master"). When unspecified, 54 all heads are updated to match the remote repository. 55 56 57Author 58------ 59Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> 60 61Documentation 62-------------- 63Documentation by Junio C Hamano. 64 65 66GIT 67--- 68Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite 69