Documentation/git-fetch-pack.txt

   1 git-fetch-pack(1)
   2 =================
   3
   4 NAME
   5 ----
   6 git-fetch-pack - Receive missing objects from another repository
   7
   8
   9 SYNOPSIS
  10 --------
  11 [verse]
  12 'git fetch-pack' [--all] [--quiet|-q] [--keep|-k] [--thin] [--include-tag]
  13         [--upload-pack=<git-upload-pack>]
  14         [--depth=<n>] [--no-progress]
  15         [-v] [<host>:]<directory> [<refs>...]
  16
  17 DESCRIPTION
  18 -----------
  19 Usually you would want to use 'git fetch', which is a
  20 higher level wrapper of this command, instead.
  21
  22 Invokes 'git-upload-pack' on a possibly remote repository
  23 and asks it to send objects missing from this repository, to
  24 update the named heads.  The list of commits available locally
  25 is found out by scanning the local refs/ hierarchy and sent to
  26 'git-upload-pack' running on the other end.
  27
  28 This command degenerates to download everything to complete the
  29 asked refs from the remote side when the local side does not
  30 have a common ancestor commit.
  31
  32
  33 OPTIONS
  34 -------
  35 --all::
  36         Fetch all remote refs.
  37
  38 --stdin::
  39         Take the list of refs from stdin, one per line. If there
  40         are refs specified on the command line in addition to this
  41         option, then the refs from stdin are processed after those
  42         on the command line.
  43 +
  44 If '--stateless-rpc' is specified together with this option then
  45 the list of refs must be in packet format (pkt-line). Each ref must
  46 be in a separate packet, and the list must end with a flush packet.
  47
  48 -q::
  49 --quiet::
  50         Pass '-q' flag to 'git unpack-objects'; this makes the
  51         cloning process less verbose.
  52
  53 -k::
  54 --keep::
  55         Do not invoke 'git unpack-objects' on received data, but
  56         create a single packfile out of it instead, and store it
  57         in the object database. If provided twice then the pack is
  58         locked against repacking.
  59
  60 --thin::
  61         Fetch a "thin" pack, which records objects in deltified form based
  62         on objects not included in the pack to reduce network traffic.
  63
  64 --include-tag::
  65         If the remote side supports it, annotated tags objects will
  66         be downloaded on the same connection as the other objects if
  67         the object the tag references is downloaded.  The caller must
  68         otherwise determine the tags this option made available.
  69
  70 --upload-pack=<git-upload-pack>::
  71         Use this to specify the path to 'git-upload-pack' on the
  72         remote side, if is not found on your $PATH.
  73         Installations of sshd ignores the user's environment
  74         setup scripts for login shells (e.g. .bash_profile) and
  75         your privately installed git may not be found on the system
  76         default $PATH.  Another workaround suggested is to set
  77         up your $PATH in ".bashrc", but this flag is for people
  78         who do not want to pay the overhead for non-interactive
  79         shells by having a lean .bashrc file (they set most of
  80         the things up in .bash_profile).
  81
  82 --exec=<git-upload-pack>::
  83         Same as \--upload-pack=<git-upload-pack>.
  84
  85 --depth=<n>::
  86         Limit fetching to ancestor-chains not longer than n.
  87         'git-upload-pack' treats the special depth 2147483647 as
  88         infinite even if there is an ancestor-chain that long.
  89
  90 --no-progress::
  91         Do not show the progress.
  92
  93 -v::
  94         Run verbosely.
  95
  96 <host>::
  97         A remote host that houses the repository.  When this
  98         part is specified, 'git-upload-pack' is invoked via
  99         ssh.
 100
 101 <directory>::
 102         The repository to sync from.
 103
 104 <refs>...::
 105         The remote heads to update from. This is relative to
 106         $GIT_DIR (e.g. "HEAD", "refs/heads/master").  When
 107         unspecified, update from all heads the remote side has.
 108
 109 GIT
 110 ---
 111 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite