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