diff options
| author | Jeff King <peff@peff.net> | 2014-08-21 12:21:20 (GMT) |
|---|---|---|
| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2014-08-26 19:58:02 (GMT) |
| commit | 26be19ba8d8d2e7e3e288b395e7156d5b7af5140 (patch) | |
| tree | f025f721c298e2770de4419200a85758671b153b /Documentation/git-send-pack.txt | |
| parent | 4109c28e055dba27d73cefb956bea5e611f66ec0 (diff) | |
| download | git-26be19ba8d8d2e7e3e288b395e7156d5b7af5140.zip git-26be19ba8d8d2e7e3e288b395e7156d5b7af5140.tar.gz git-26be19ba8d8d2e7e3e288b395e7156d5b7af5140.tar.bz2 | |
send-pack: take refspecs over stdin
Pushing a large number of refs works over most transports,
because we implement send-pack as an internal function.
However, it can sometimes fail when pushing over http,
because we have to spawn "git send-pack --stateless-rpc" to
do the heavy lifting, and we pass each refspec on the
command line. This can cause us to overflow the OS limits on
the size of the command line for a large push.
We can solve this by giving send-pack a --stdin option and
using it from remote-curl. We already dealt with this on
the fetch-pack side in 078b895 (fetch-pack: new --stdin
option to read refs from stdin, 2012-04-02). The stdin
option (and in particular, its use of packet-lines for
stateless-rpc input) is modeled after that solution.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/git-send-pack.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-send-pack.txt | 13 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-send-pack.txt b/Documentation/git-send-pack.txt index dc3a568..2a0de42 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-send-pack.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-send-pack.txt @@ -35,6 +35,16 @@ OPTIONS Instead of explicitly specifying which refs to update, update all heads that locally exist. +--stdin:: + Take the list of refs from stdin, one per line. If there + are refs specified on the command line in addition to this + option, then the refs from stdin are processed after those + on the command line. ++ +If '--stateless-rpc' is specified together with this option then +the list of refs must be in packet format (pkt-line). Each ref must +be in a separate packet, and the list must end with a flush packet. + --dry-run:: Do everything except actually send the updates. @@ -77,7 +87,8 @@ this flag. Without '--all' and without any '<ref>', the heads that exist both on the local side and on the remote side are updated. -When one or more '<ref>' are specified explicitly, it can be either a +When one or more '<ref>' are specified explicitly (whether on the +command line or via `--stdin`), it can be either a single pattern, or a pair of such pattern separated by a colon ":" (this means that a ref name cannot have a colon in it). A single pattern '<name>' is just a shorthand for '<name>:<name>'. |