X-Git-Url: https://git.tokkee.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=Documentation%2Fgit-fetch.txt;h=a9e86fd26b0df6fe7a84ebdd030b9ae4d46f597e;hb=891e85a0c08e12d3f6174d8eb10b4ef284c4b01b;hp=017f6466010f31d9084257d3708aee18c6049abf;hpb=215a7ad1ef790467a4cd3f0dcffbd6e5f04c38f7;p=git.git diff --git a/Documentation/git-fetch.txt b/Documentation/git-fetch.txt index 017f64660..d982f961f 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-fetch.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-fetch.txt @@ -1,15 +1,14 @@ git-fetch(1) ============ -v0.99.5, Aug 2005 NAME ---- -git-fetch - Download objects and a head from another repository. +git-fetch - Download objects and refs from another repository SYNOPSIS -------- -'git-fetch' ... +'git-fetch' ... DESCRIPTION @@ -18,14 +17,30 @@ Fetches named heads or tags from another repository, along with the objects necessary to complete them. The ref names and their object names of fetched refs are stored -in $GIT_DIR/FETCH_HEAD. This information is left for a later merge -operation done by "git resolve" or "git octopus". +in `.git/FETCH_HEAD`. This information is left for a later merge +operation done by "git merge". + +When stores the fetched result in tracking branches, +the tags that point at these branches are automatically +followed. This is done by first fetching from the remote using +the given s, and if the repository has objects that are +pointed by remote tags that it does not yet have, then fetch +those missing tags. If the other end has tags that point at +branches you are not interested in, you will not get them. OPTIONS ------- +include::fetch-options.txt[] + include::pull-fetch-param.txt[] +include::urls-remotes.txt[] + +SEE ALSO +-------- +linkgit:git-pull[1] + Author ------ @@ -33,9 +48,9 @@ Written by Linus Torvalds and Junio C Hamano Documentation --------------- +------------- Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list . GIT --- -Part of the link:git.html[git] suite +Part of the linkgit:git[7] suite