[PATCH] Documentation: send/receive.
From: Junio C Hamano <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:42:02
Subsystem:
documentation, the rest · Maintainers:
Jonathan Corbet, Linus Torvalds
This adds documentation for 'smarter push' family of commands. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <redacted> --- Documentation/git-receive-pack.txt | 41 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Documentation/git-send-pack.txt | 46 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ send-pack.c | 3 ++ 3 files changed, 89 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) create mode 100644 Documentation/git-receive-pack.txt create mode 100644 Documentation/git-send-pack.txt 1cf367fc165560b68a51b6ce4cc91d809cf09c99
diff --git a/Documentation/git-receive-pack.txt b/Documentation/git-receive-pack.txt
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/git-receive-pack.txt@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@ +git-receive-pack(1) +=================== +v0.1, July 2005 + +NAME +---- +git-receive-pack - Receive what is pushed into it + + +SYNOPSIS +-------- +'git-receive-pack' <directory> + +DESCRIPTION +----------- +Invoked by 'git-send-pack' and updates the repository with the +information fed from the remote end. + +This command is usually not invoked directly by the end user. +The UI for the protocol is on the 'git-send-pack' side, and the +program pair is meant to be used to push updates to remote +repository. For pull operations, see 'git-fetch-pack' and +'git-clone-pack'. + + +OPTIONS +------- +<directory>:: + The repository to sync into. + +Author +------ +Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> + +Documentation +-------------- +Documentation by Junio C Hamano. + +GIT +--- +Part of the link:git.html[git] suite
diff --git a/Documentation/git-send-pack.txt b/Documentation/git-send-pack.txt
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/git-send-pack.txt@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@ +git-send-pack(1) +================ +v0.1, July 2005 + +NAME +---- +git-send-pack - Push missing objects packed. + + +SYNOPSIS +-------- +'git-send-pack' [--exec=<git-receive-pack>] [<host>:]<directory> [<head>...] + +DESCRIPTION +----------- +Invokes 'git-receive-pack' on a possibly remote repository, and +updates it from the current repository, sending named heads. + + +OPTIONS +------- +--exec=<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. + +<host>:: + A remote host to house the repository. When this + part is specified, 'git-receive-pack' is invoked via + ssh. + +<directory>:: + The repository to update. + +Author +------ +Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> + +Documentation +-------------- +Documentation by Junio C Hamano. + +GIT +--- +Part of the link:git.html[git] suite
diff --git a/send-pack.c b/send-pack.c
--- a/send-pack.c
+++ b/send-pack.c@@ -2,7 +2,8 @@ #include "refs.h" #include "pkt-line.h" -static const char send_pack_usage[] = "git-send-pack [--exec=other] destination [heads]*"; +static const char send_pack_usage[] = +"git-send-pack [--exec=git-receive-pack] [host:]directory [heads]*"; static const char *exec = "git-receive-pack"; struct ref {