git-upload-pack - Send objects packed back to git-fetch-pack
git-upload-pack [--[no-]strict] [--timeout=<n>] [--stateless-rpc]
[--advertise-refs] <directory>
Invoked by git fetch-pack, learns what objects the other
side is missing, and sends them after packing.
This command is usually not invoked directly by the end user. The
UI for the protocol is on the git fetch-pack side, and the program
pair is meant to be used to pull updates from a remote repository. For push
operations, see git send-pack.
--[no-]strict
Do not try <directory>/.git/ if <directory>
is not a Git directory.
--timeout=<n>
Interrupt transfer after <n> seconds of
inactivity.
--stateless-rpc
Perform only a single read-write cycle with stdin and
stdout. This fits with the HTTP POST request processing model where a program
may read the request, write a response, and must exit.
--http-backend-info-refs
Used by git-http-backend(1) to serve up
$GIT_URL/info/refs?service=git-upload-pack requests. See "Smart
Clients" in gitprotocol-http(5) and "HTTP Transport" in
the gitprotocol-v2(5) documentation. Also understood by
git-receive-pack(1).
<directory>
The repository to sync from.
GIT_PROTOCOL
Internal variable used for handshaking the wire protocol.
Server admins may need to configure some transports to allow this variable to
be passed. See the discussion in git(1).
GIT_NO_LAZY_FETCH
When cloning or fetching from a partial repository (i.e.,
one itself cloned with
--filter), the server-side
upload-pack
may need to fetch extra objects from its upstream in order to complete the
request. By default,
upload-pack will refuse to perform such a lazy
fetch, because
git fetch may run arbitrary commands specified in
configuration and hooks of the source repository (and
upload-pack tries
to be safe to run even in untrusted
.git directories).
This is implemented by having upload-pack internally set
the GIT_NO_LAZY_FETCH variable to 1. If you want to override
it (because you are fetching from a partial clone, and you are sure you
trust it), you can explicitly set GIT_NO_LAZY_FETCH to 0.