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' [-q] [-k] [--exec=<git-upload-pack>] [<host>:]<directory> [<refs>...]
13 DESCRIPTION
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15 Usually you would want to use gitlink:git-fetch[1] which is a
16 higher level wrapper of this command instead.
18 Invokes 'git-upload-pack' on a potentially 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
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31 -q::
32 Pass '-q' flag to 'git-unpack-objects'; this makes the
33 cloning process less verbose.
35 -k::
36 Do not invoke 'git-unpack-objects' on received data, but
37 create a single packfile out of it instead, and store it
38 in the object database. If provided twice then the pack is
39 locked against repacking.
41 --exec=<git-upload-pack>::
42 Use this to specify the path to 'git-upload-pack' on the
43 remote side, if is not found on your $PATH.
44 Installations of sshd ignores the user's environment
45 setup scripts for login shells (e.g. .bash_profile) and
46 your privately installed git may not be found on the system
47 default $PATH. Another workaround suggested is to set
48 up your $PATH in ".bashrc", but this flag is for people
49 who do not want to pay the overhead for non-interactive
50 shells by having a lean .bashrc file (they set most of
51 the things up in .bash_profile).
53 <host>::
54 A remote host that houses the repository. When this
55 part is specified, 'git-upload-pack' is invoked via
56 ssh.
58 <directory>::
59 The repository to sync from.
61 <refs>...::
62 The remote heads to update from. This is relative to
63 $GIT_DIR (e.g. "HEAD", "refs/heads/master"). When
64 unspecified, update from all heads the remote side has.
67 Author
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69 Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
71 Documentation
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73 Documentation by Junio C Hamano.
75 GIT
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77 Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite