1 git-fetch-pack(1)
2 =================
4 NAME
5 ----
6 git-fetch-pack - Receive missing objects from another repository
9 SYNOPSIS
10 --------
11 'git fetch-pack' [--all] [--quiet|-q] [--keep|-k] [--thin] [--include-tag] [--upload-pack=<git-upload-pack>] [--depth=<n>] [--no-progress] [-v] [<host>:]<directory> [<refs>...]
13 DESCRIPTION
14 -----------
15 Usually you would want to use 'git-fetch', which is a
16 higher level wrapper of this command, instead.
18 Invokes 'git-upload-pack' on a possibly remote repository
19 and asks it to send objects missing from this repository, to
20 update the named heads. The list of commits available locally
21 is found out by scanning local $GIT_DIR/refs/ and sent to
22 'git-upload-pack' running on the other end.
24 This command degenerates to download everything to complete the
25 asked refs from the remote side when the local side does not
26 have a common ancestor commit.
29 OPTIONS
30 -------
31 --all::
32 Fetch all remote refs.
34 -q::
35 --quiet::
36 Pass '-q' flag to 'git-unpack-objects'; this makes the
37 cloning process less verbose.
39 -k::
40 --keep::
41 Do not invoke 'git-unpack-objects' on received data, but
42 create a single packfile out of it instead, and store it
43 in the object database. If provided twice then the pack is
44 locked against repacking.
46 --thin::
47 Spend extra cycles to minimize the number of objects to be sent.
48 Use it on slower connection.
50 --include-tag::
51 If the remote side supports it, annotated tags objects will
52 be downloaded on the same connection as the other objects if
53 the object the tag references is downloaded. The caller must
54 otherwise determine the tags this option made available.
56 --upload-pack=<git-upload-pack>::
57 Use this to specify the path to 'git-upload-pack' on the
58 remote side, if is not found on your $PATH.
59 Installations of sshd ignores the user's environment
60 setup scripts for login shells (e.g. .bash_profile) and
61 your privately installed git may not be found on the system
62 default $PATH. Another workaround suggested is to set
63 up your $PATH in ".bashrc", but this flag is for people
64 who do not want to pay the overhead for non-interactive
65 shells by having a lean .bashrc file (they set most of
66 the things up in .bash_profile).
68 --exec=<git-upload-pack>::
69 Same as \--upload-pack=<git-upload-pack>.
71 --depth=<n>::
72 Limit fetching to ancestor-chains not longer than n.
74 --no-progress::
75 Do not show the progress.
77 -v::
78 Run verbosely.
80 <host>::
81 A remote host that houses the repository. When this
82 part is specified, 'git-upload-pack' is invoked via
83 ssh.
85 <directory>::
86 The repository to sync from.
88 <refs>...::
89 The remote heads to update from. This is relative to
90 $GIT_DIR (e.g. "HEAD", "refs/heads/master"). When
91 unspecified, update from all heads the remote side has.
94 Author
95 ------
96 Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
98 Documentation
99 --------------
100 Documentation by Junio C Hamano.
102 GIT
103 ---
104 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite