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DESCRIPTION
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-Usually you would want to use linkgit:git-fetch[1] which is a
-higher level wrapper of this command instead.
+Usually you would want to use `git-fetch`, which is a
+higher level wrapper of this command, instead.
-Invokes 'git-upload-pack' on a potentially remote repository,
+Invokes `git-upload-pack` on a possibly remote repository
and asks it to send objects missing from this repository, to
update the named heads. The list of commits available locally
is found out by scanning local $GIT_DIR/refs/ and sent to
-'git-upload-pack' running on the other end.
+`git-upload-pack` running on the other end.
This command degenerates to download everything to complete the
asked refs from the remote side when the local side does not
-q::
--quiet::
- Pass '-q' flag to 'git-unpack-objects'; this makes the
+ Pass '-q' flag to `git-unpack-objects`; this makes the
cloning process less verbose.
-k::
--keep::
- Do not invoke 'git-unpack-objects' on received data, but
+ Do not invoke `git-unpack-objects` on received data, but
create a single packfile out of it instead, and store it
in the object database. If provided twice then the pack is
locked against repacking.
otherwise determine the tags this option made available.
--upload-pack=<git-upload-pack>::
- Use this to specify the path to 'git-upload-pack' on the
+ Use this to specify the path to `git-upload-pack` on the
remote side, if is not found on your $PATH.
Installations of sshd ignores the user's environment
setup scripts for login shells (e.g. .bash_profile) and
<host>::
A remote host that houses the repository. When this
- part is specified, 'git-upload-pack' is invoked via
+ part is specified, `git-upload-pack` is invoked via
ssh.
<directory>::