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1git-fetch(1)
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215a7ad1 7git-fetch - Download objects and a head from another repository.
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10SYNOPSIS
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215a7ad1 12'git-fetch' <repository> <refspec>...
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15DESCRIPTION
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17Fetches named heads or tags from another repository, along with
18the objects necessary to complete them.
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20The ref names and their object names of fetched refs are stored
21in $GIT_DIR/FETCH_HEAD. This information is left for a later merge
22operation done by "git resolve" or "git octopus".
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25OPTIONS
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27include::pull-fetch-param.txt[]
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32Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> and
33Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
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35Documentation
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37Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
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39GIT
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41Part of the link:git.html[git] suite