Documentation/fetch-options.txt

   1 --all::
   2         Fetch all remotes.
   3
   4 -a::
   5 --append::
   6         Append ref names and object names of fetched refs to the
   7         existing contents of `.git/FETCH_HEAD`.  Without this
   8         option old data in `.git/FETCH_HEAD` will be overwritten.
   9
  10 --depth=<depth>::
  11         Deepen the history of a 'shallow' repository created by
  12         `git clone` with `--depth=<depth>` option (see linkgit:git-clone[1])
  13         to the specified number of commits from the tip of each remote
  14         branch history. Tags for the deepened commits are not fetched.
  15
  16 ifndef::git-pull[]
  17 --dry-run::
  18         Show what would be done, without making any changes.
  19 endif::git-pull[]
  20
  21 -f::
  22 --force::
  23         When 'git fetch' is used with `<rbranch>:<lbranch>`
  24         refspec, it refuses to update the local branch
  25         `<lbranch>` unless the remote branch `<rbranch>` it
  26         fetches is a descendant of `<lbranch>`.  This option
  27         overrides that check.
  28
  29 -k::
  30 --keep::
  31         Keep downloaded pack.
  32
  33 ifndef::git-pull[]
  34 --multiple::
  35         Allow several <repository> and <group> arguments to be
  36         specified. No <refspec>s may be specified.
  37
  38 -p::
  39 --prune::
  40         After fetching, remove any remote-tracking branches which
  41         no longer exist on the remote.
  42 endif::git-pull[]
  43
  44 ifdef::git-pull[]
  45 --no-tags::
  46 endif::git-pull[]
  47 ifndef::git-pull[]
  48 -n::
  49 --no-tags::
  50 endif::git-pull[]
  51         By default, tags that point at objects that are downloaded
  52         from the remote repository are fetched and stored locally.
  53         This option disables this automatic tag following. The default
  54         behavior for a remote may be specified with the remote.<name>.tagopt
  55         setting. See linkgit:git-config[1].
  56
  57 ifndef::git-pull[]
  58 -t::
  59 --tags::
  60         This is a short-hand for giving "refs/tags/*:refs/tags/*"
  61         refspec from the command line, to ask all tags to be fetched
  62         and stored locally.  Because this acts as an explicit
  63         refspec, the default refspecs (configured with the
  64         remote.$name.fetch variable) are overridden and not used.
  65
  66 --recurse-submodules[=yes|on-demand|no]::
  67         This option controls if and under what conditions new commits of
  68         populated submodules should be fetched too. It can be used as a
  69         boolean option to completely disable recursion when set to 'no' or to
  70         unconditionally recurse into all populated submodules when set to
  71         'yes', which is the default when this option is used without any
  72         value. Use 'on-demand' to only recurse into a populated submodule
  73         when the superproject retrieves a commit that updates the submodule's
  74         reference to a commit that isn't already in the local submodule
  75         clone.
  76
  77 --no-recurse-submodules::
  78         Disable recursive fetching of submodules (this has the same effect as
  79         using the '--recurse-submodules=no' option).
  80
  81 --submodule-prefix=<path>::
  82         Prepend <path> to paths printed in informative messages
  83         such as "Fetching submodule foo".  This option is used
  84         internally when recursing over submodules.
  85
  86 --recurse-submodules-default=[yes|on-demand]::
  87         This option is used internally to temporarily provide a
  88         non-negative default value for the --recurse-submodules
  89         option.  All other methods of configuring fetch's submodule
  90         recursion (such as settings in linkgit:gitmodules[5] and
  91         linkgit:git-config[1]) override this option, as does
  92         specifying --[no-]recurse-submodules directly.
  93 endif::git-pull[]
  94
  95 -u::
  96 --update-head-ok::
  97         By default 'git fetch' refuses to update the head which
  98         corresponds to the current branch.  This flag disables the
  99         check.  This is purely for the internal use for 'git pull'
 100         to communicate with 'git fetch', and unless you are
 101         implementing your own Porcelain you are not supposed to
 102         use it.
 103
 104 --upload-pack <upload-pack>::
 105         When given, and the repository to fetch from is handled
 106         by 'git fetch-pack', '--exec=<upload-pack>' is passed to
 107         the command to specify non-default path for the command
 108         run on the other end.
 109
 110 ifndef::git-pull[]
 111 -q::
 112 --quiet::
 113         Pass --quiet to git-fetch-pack and silence any other internally
 114         used git commands. Progress is not reported to the standard error
 115         stream.
 116
 117 -v::
 118 --verbose::
 119         Be verbose.
 120 endif::git-pull[]
 121
 122 --progress::
 123         Progress status is reported on the standard error stream
 124         by default when it is attached to a terminal, unless -q
 125         is specified. This flag forces progress status even if the
 126         standard error stream is not directed to a terminal.