DESCRIPTION
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-Usually you would want to use gitlink:git-push[1] which is a
+Usually you would want to use linkgit:git-push[1] which is a
higher level wrapper of this command instead.
Invokes 'git-receive-pack' on a possibly remote repository, and
OPTIONS
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-\--receive-pack=<git-receive-pack>::
+--receive-pack=<git-receive-pack>::
Path to the 'git-receive-pack' program on the remote
end. Sometimes useful when pushing to a remote
repository over ssh, and you do not have the program in
a directory on the default $PATH.
-\--exec=<git-receive-pack>::
+--exec=<git-receive-pack>::
Same as \--receive-pack=<git-receive-pack>.
-\--all::
+--all::
Instead of explicitly specifying which refs to update,
update all heads that locally exist.
-\--dry-run::
+--dry-run::
Do everything except actually send the updates.
-\--force::
+--force::
Usually, the command refuses to update a remote ref that
is not an ancestor of the local ref used to overwrite it.
This flag disables the check. What this means is that
the remote repository can lose commits; use it with
care.
-\--verbose::
+--verbose::
Run verbosely.
-\--thin::
+--thin::
Spend extra cycles to minimize the number of objects to be sent.
Use it on slower connection.
and the destination side (after the colon). The ref to be
pushed is determined by finding a match that matches the source
side, and where it is pushed is determined by using the
-destination side.
+destination side. The rules used to match a ref are the same
+rules used by linkgit:git-rev-parse[1] to resolve a symbolic ref
+name.
- It is an error if <src> does not match exactly one of the
local refs.
GIT
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-Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite
+Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite