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git-upload-pack(1)
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NAME
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git-upload-pack - Send objects packed back to git-fetch-pack


SYNOPSIS
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[verse]
'git-upload-pack' [--[no-]strict] [--timeout=<n>] [--stateless-rpc]
                  [--advertise-refs] <directory>

DESCRIPTION
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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'.

OPTIONS
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--[no-]strict::
        Do not try <directory>/.git/ if <directory> is no 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 linkgit:git-http-backend[1] to serve up
        `$GIT_URL/info/refs?service=git-upload-pack` requests. See
        "Smart Clients" in link:technical/http-protocol.html[the HTTP
        transfer protocols] documentation and "HTTP Transport" in
        link:technical/protocol-v2.html[the Git Wire Protocol, Version
        2] documentation. Also understood by
        linkgit:git-receive-pack[1].

<directory>::
        The repository to sync from.

ENVIRONMENT
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`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 linkgit: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).
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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`.

SEE ALSO
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linkgit:gitnamespaces[7]

GIT
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Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite

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