Merge branch 'cb/maint-unpack-trees-absense' into maint

diff --git a/Documentation/git-send-pack.txt b/Documentation/git-send-pack.txt
index eea8fe8af3bfd90b4e4c890c748268a8e58a6bbb..399821832c2a5cd6a718a7dc37a87e6b5bc0b213 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-send-pack.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-send-pack.txt
@@ -3,17 +3,17 @@ git-send-pack(1)
 
 NAME
 ----
-git-send-pack - Push objects over git protocol to another reposiotory
+git-send-pack - Push objects over git protocol to another repository
 
 
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
-'git-send-pack' [--all] [--force] [--exec=<git-receive-pack>] [<host>:]<directory> [<ref>...]
+'git send-pack' [--all] [--dry-run] [--force] [--receive-pack=<git-receive-pack>] [--verbose] [--thin] [<host>:]<directory> [<ref>...]
 
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
-Usually you would want to use gitlink:git-push[1] which is a
-higher level wrapper of this command instead.
+Usually you would want to use 'git-push', which is a
+higher-level wrapper of this command, instead. See linkgit:git-push[1].
 
 Invokes 'git-receive-pack' on a possibly remote repository, and
 updates it from the current repository, sending named refs.
@@ -21,15 +21,21 @@ updates it from the current repository, sending named refs.
 
 OPTIONS
 -------
---exec=<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>::
+       Same as \--receive-pack=<git-receive-pack>.
+
 --all::
        Instead of explicitly specifying which refs to update,
-       update all refs that locally exist.
+       update all heads that locally exist.
+
+--dry-run::
+       Do everything except actually send the updates.
 
 --force::
        Usually, the command refuses to update a remote ref that
@@ -38,6 +44,13 @@ OPTIONS
        the remote repository can lose commits; use it with
        care.
 
+--verbose::
+       Run verbosely.
+
+--thin::
+       Spend extra cycles to minimize the number of objects to be sent.
+       Use it on slower connection.
+
 <host>::
        A remote host to house the repository.  When this
        part is specified, 'git-receive-pack' is invoked via
@@ -60,7 +73,7 @@ With '--all' flag, all refs that exist locally are transferred to
 the remote side.  You cannot specify any '<ref>' if you use
 this flag.
 
-Without '--all' and without any '<ref>', the refs that exist
+Without '--all' and without any '<ref>', the heads that exist
 both on the local side and on the remote side are updated.
 
 When one or more '<ref>' are specified explicitly, it can be either a
@@ -72,7 +85,9 @@ Each pattern pair consists of the source side (before the colon)
 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 'git-rev-parse' to resolve a symbolic ref
+name. See linkgit:git-rev-parse[1].
 
  - It is an error if <src> does not match exactly one of the
    local refs.
@@ -110,4 +125,4 @@ Documentation by Junio C Hamano.
 
 GIT
 ---
-Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite
+Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite