GIT-FETCH-PACK(1) Git Manual GIT-FETCH-PACK(1)NAMEgit-fetch-pack - Receive missing objects from another repository
SYNOPSISgit-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(1) which is a higher level
wrapper of this command instead.
Invokes git-upload-pack on a potentially 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.
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.
--quiet, \-q
Pass -q flag to git-unpack-objects; this makes the cloning
process less verbose.
--keep, \-k
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.
--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
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 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-interactive
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>
DOCUMENTATION
Documentation by Junio C Hamano.
GIT
Part of the git(7) suite
Git 1.5.5.2 10/21/2008 GIT-FETCH-PACK(1)
