GIT-FETCH-PACK(1)GIT-FETCH-PACK(1)NAMEgit-fetch-pack - Receive missing objects from another repository
SYNOPSIS
git fetch-pack [--all] [--quiet|-q] [--keep|-k] [--thin]
[--include-tag] [--upload-pack=<git-upload-pack>] [--depth=<n>]
[--no-progress] [-v] [<host>:]<directory> [<refs>...]
DESCRIPTION
Usually you would want to use git fetch, which is a higher level wrap-
per 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 the
local refs/ hierarchy and sent to 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 have a common
ancestor commit.
OPTIONS--all Fetch all remote refs.
-q, --quiet
Pass -q flag to git unpack-objects; this makes the cloning pro-
cess less verbose.
-k, --keep
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 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 be
downloaded on the same connection as the other objects if the
object the tag references is downloaded. The caller must other-
wise determine the tags this option made available.
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GIT-FETCH-PACK(1)GIT-FETCH-PACK(1)
--upload-pack=<git-upload-pack>
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 your privately installed git may
not be found on the system default $PATH. Another workaround
suggested is to set up your $PATH in ".bashrc", but this flag is
for people who do not want to pay the overhead for non-interac-
tive shells by having a lean .bashrc file (they set most of the
things up in .bash_profile).
--exec=<git-upload-pack>
Same as --upload-pack=<git-upload-pack>.
--depth=<n>
Limit fetching to ancestor-chains not longer than n.
--no-progress
Do not show the progress.
-v Run verbosely.
<host> A remote host that houses the repository. When this part is
specified, git-upload-pack is invoked via ssh.
<directory>
The repository to sync from.
<refs>...
The remote heads to update from. This is relative to $GIT_DIR
(e.g. "HEAD", "refs/heads/master"). When unspecified, update
from all heads the remote side has.
AUTHOR
Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org: mailto:torvalds@osdl.org>
DOCUMENTATION
Documentation by Junio C Hamano.
GIT
Part of the git(1) suite
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