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 'git fetch-pack' [--all] [--quiet|-q] [--keep|-k] [--thin] [--include-tag] [--upload-pack=<git-upload-pack>] [--depth=<n>] [--no-progress] [-v] [<host>:]<directory> [<refs>...]
  12
  13 DESCRIPTION
  14 -----------
  15 Usually you would want to use linkgit:git-fetch[1] which is a
  16 higher level wrapper of this command instead.
  17
  18 Invokes 'git-upload-pack' on a potentially remote repository,
  19 and asks it to send objects missing from this repository, to
  20 update the named heads.  The list of commits available locally
  21 is found out by scanning local $GIT_DIR/refs/ and sent to
  22 'git-upload-pack' running on the other end.
  23
  24 This command degenerates to download everything to complete the
  25 asked refs from the remote side when the local side does not
  26 have a common ancestor commit.
  27
  28
  29 OPTIONS
  30 -------
  31 --all::
  32         Fetch all remote refs.
  33
  34 -q::
  35 --quiet::
  36         Pass '-q' flag to 'git-unpack-objects'; this makes the
  37         cloning process less verbose.
  38
  39 -k::
  40 --keep::
  41         Do not invoke 'git-unpack-objects' on received data, but
  42         create a single packfile out of it instead, and store it
  43         in the object database. If provided twice then the pack is
  44         locked against repacking.
  45
  46 --thin::
  47         Spend extra cycles to minimize the number of objects to be sent.
  48         Use it on slower connection.
  49
  50 --include-tag::
  51         If the remote side supports it, annotated tags objects will
  52         be downloaded on the same connection as the other objects if
  53         the object the tag references is downloaded.  The caller must
  54         otherwise determine the tags this option made available.
  55
  56 --upload-pack=<git-upload-pack>::
  57         Use this to specify the path to 'git-upload-pack' on the
  58         remote side, if is not found on your $PATH.
  59         Installations of sshd ignores the user's environment
  60         setup scripts for login shells (e.g. .bash_profile) and
  61         your privately installed git may not be found on the system
  62         default $PATH.  Another workaround suggested is to set
  63         up your $PATH in ".bashrc", but this flag is for people
  64         who do not want to pay the overhead for non-interactive
  65         shells by having a lean .bashrc file (they set most of
  66         the things up in .bash_profile).
  67
  68 --exec=<git-upload-pack>::
  69         Same as \--upload-pack=<git-upload-pack>.
  70
  71 --depth=<n>::
  72         Limit fetching to ancestor-chains not longer than n.
  73
  74 --no-progress::
  75         Do not show the progress.
  76
  77 -v::
  78         Run verbosely.
  79
  80 <host>::
  81         A remote host that houses the repository.  When this
  82         part is specified, 'git-upload-pack' is invoked via
  83         ssh.
  84
  85 <directory>::
  86         The repository to sync from.
  87
  88 <refs>...::
  89         The remote heads to update from. This is relative to
  90         $GIT_DIR (e.g. "HEAD", "refs/heads/master").  When
  91         unspecified, update from all heads the remote side has.
  92
  93
  94 Author
  95 ------
  96 Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
  97
  98 Documentation
  99 --------------
 100 Documentation by Junio C Hamano.
 101
 102 GIT
 103 ---
 104 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite