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NAME
       git-upload-pack - Send objects packed back to git-fetch-pack

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


DESCRIPTION
       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
       --[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 git-http-backend(1) to serve up $GIT_URL/info/refs?service=git-upload-pack
           requests. See "Smart Clients" in the HTTP transfer protocols[1] documentation and "HTTP
           Transport" in the Git Wire Protocol, Version 2[2] documentation. Also understood by git-
           receive-pack(1).

       <directory>
           The repository to sync from.

ENVIRONMENT
       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.

SEE ALSO
       gitnamespaces(7)

GIT
       Part of the git(1) suite

NOTES
        1. the HTTP transfer protocols
           file:///usr/share/doc/git/html/technical/http-protocol.html

        2. the Git Wire Protocol, Version 2
           file:///usr/share/doc/git/html/technical/protocol-v2.html



Git 2.34.1                                   02/26/2026                           GIT-UPLOAD-PACK(1)