X-Git-Url: https://git.tokkee.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=Documentation%2Fgit-fetch-pack.txt;h=4a8487c1547abc156c8fad9e7cafe4d3c5a535f6;hb=0510480510b181216d565ebcedea471d50c200b1;hp=47448da22eeebf51fe5829717df2dc7129a9b17e;hpb=b7380fa7a9adb52860eef7e8885fb8bc179beae1;p=git.git diff --git a/Documentation/git-fetch-pack.txt b/Documentation/git-fetch-pack.txt index 47448da22..4a8487c15 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-fetch-pack.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-fetch-pack.txt @@ -12,13 +12,13 @@ SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION ----------- -Usually you would want to use 'git-fetch', which is a +Usually you would want to use 'git fetch', which is a higher level wrapper of this command, instead. 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 +is found out by scanning the local refs/ hierarchy and sent to 'git-upload-pack' running on the other end. This command degenerates to download everything to complete the @@ -33,19 +33,19 @@ OPTIONS -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. --thin:: - Spend extra cycles to minimize the number of objects to be sent. - Use it on slower connection. + Fetch a "thin" pack, which records objects in deltified form based + on objects not included in the pack to reduce network traffic. --include-tag:: If the remote side supports it, annotated tags objects will