NAME
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-git-send-pack - Push objects over git protocol to another reposiotory
+git-send-pack - Push objects over git protocol to another repository
SYNOPSIS
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-'git-send-pack' [--all] [--force] [--receive-pack=<git-receive-pack>] [--verbose] [--thin] [<host>:]<directory> [<ref>...]
+'git-send-pack' [--all] [--dry-run] [--force] [--receive-pack=<git-receive-pack>] [--verbose] [--thin] [<host>:]<directory> [<ref>...]
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
\--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
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
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[7] suite