6 git-upload-pack - Send objects packed back to git-fetch-pack
12 'git-upload-pack' [--[no-]strict] [--timeout=<n>] [--stateless-rpc]
13 [--advertise-refs] <directory>
17 Invoked by 'git fetch-pack', learns what
18 objects the other side is missing, and sends them after packing.
20 This command is usually not invoked directly by the end user.
21 The UI for the protocol is on the 'git fetch-pack' side, and the
22 program pair is meant to be used to pull updates from a remote
23 repository. For push operations, see 'git send-pack'.
29 Do not try <directory>/.git/ if <directory> is not a Git directory.
32 Interrupt transfer after <n> seconds of inactivity.
35 Perform only a single read-write cycle with stdin and stdout.
36 This fits with the HTTP POST request processing model where
37 a program may read the request, write a response, and must exit.
39 --http-backend-info-refs::
40 Used by linkgit:git-http-backend[1] to serve up
41 `$GIT_URL/info/refs?service=git-upload-pack` requests. See
42 "Smart Clients" in linkgit:gitprotocol-http[5] and "HTTP
43 Transport" in the linkgit:gitprotocol-v2[5]
44 documentation. Also understood by
45 linkgit:git-receive-pack[1].
48 The repository to sync from.
54 Internal variable used for handshaking the wire protocol. Server
55 admins may need to configure some transports to allow this
56 variable to be passed. See the discussion in linkgit:git[1].
59 When cloning or fetching from a partial repository (i.e., one
60 itself cloned with `--filter`), the server-side `upload-pack`
61 may need to fetch extra objects from its upstream in order to
62 complete the request. By default, `upload-pack` will refuse to
63 perform such a lazy fetch, because `git fetch` may run arbitrary
64 commands specified in configuration and hooks of the source
65 repository (and `upload-pack` tries to be safe to run even in
66 untrusted `.git` directories).
68 This is implemented by having `upload-pack` internally set the
69 `GIT_NO_LAZY_FETCH` variable to `1`. If you want to override it
70 (because you are fetching from a partial clone, and you are sure
71 you trust it), you can explicitly set `GIT_NO_LAZY_FETCH` to
77 Most Git commands should not be run in an untrusted `.git` directory
78 (see the section `SECURITY` in linkgit:git[1]). `upload-pack` tries to
79 avoid any dangerous configuration options or hooks from the repository
80 it's serving, making it safe to clone an untrusted directory and run
81 commands on the resulting clone.
83 For an extra level of safety, you may be able to run `upload-pack` as an
84 alternate user. The details will be platform dependent, but on many
87 git clone --no-local --upload-pack='sudo -u nobody git-upload-pack' ...
91 linkgit:gitnamespaces[7]
95 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite