diff options
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/git-bundle.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-bundle.txt | 27 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-bundle.txt b/Documentation/git-bundle.txt index 9b1b13dbb6..b729db7d28 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-bundle.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-bundle.txt @@ -21,9 +21,9 @@ Some workflows require that one or more branches of development on one machine be replicated on another machine, but the two machines cannot be directly connected so the interactive git protocols (git, ssh, rsync, http) cannot be used. This command provides support for -git-fetch and git-pull to operate by packaging objects and references +`git-fetch` and `git-pull` to operate by packaging objects and references in an archive at the originating machine, then importing those into -another repository using linkgit:git-fetch[1] and linkgit:git-pull[1] +another repository using `git-fetch` and `git-pull` after moving the archive by some means (i.e., by sneakernet). As no direct connection between repositories exists, the user must specify a basis for the bundle that is held by the destination repository: the @@ -35,14 +35,14 @@ OPTIONS create <file>:: Used to create a bundle named 'file'. This requires the - git-rev-list arguments to define the bundle contents. + `git-rev-list` arguments to define the bundle contents. verify <file>:: Used to check that a bundle file is valid and will apply cleanly to the current repository. This includes checks on the bundle format itself as well as checking that the prerequisite commits exist and are fully linked in the current repository. - git-bundle prints a list of missing commits, if any, and exits + `git-bundle` prints a list of missing commits, if any, and exits with non-zero status. list-heads <file>:: @@ -51,16 +51,15 @@ list-heads <file>:: printed out. unbundle <file>:: - Passes the objects in the bundle to linkgit:git-index-pack[1] + Passes the objects in the bundle to `git-index-pack` for storage in the repository, then prints the names of all defined references. If a reflist is given, only references matching those in the given list are printed. This command is - really plumbing, intended to be called only by - linkgit:git-fetch[1]. + really plumbing, intended to be called only by `git-fetch`. [git-rev-list-args...]:: - A list of arguments, acceptable to git-rev-parse and - git-rev-list, that specify the specific objects and references + A list of arguments, acceptable to `git-rev-parse` and + `git-rev-list`, that specify the specific objects and references to transport. For example, "master~10..master" causes the current master reference to be packaged along with all objects added since its 10th ancestor commit. There is no explicit @@ -70,16 +69,16 @@ unbundle <file>:: [refname...]:: A list of references used to limit the references reported as - available. This is principally of use to git-fetch, which + available. This is principally of use to `git-fetch`, which expects to receive only those references asked for and not - necessarily everything in the pack (in this case, git-bundle is - acting like linkgit:git-fetch-pack[1]). + necessarily everything in the pack (in this case, `git-bundle` is + acting like `git-fetch-pack`). SPECIFYING REFERENCES --------------------- -git-bundle will only package references that are shown by -git-show-ref: this includes heads, tags, and remote heads. References +`git-bundle` will only package references that are shown by +`git-show-ref`: this includes heads, tags, and remote heads. References such as master~1 cannot be packaged, but are perfectly suitable for defining the basis. More than one reference may be packaged, and more than one basis can be specified. The objects packaged are those not |