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 [-q] [-k] [--exec=<git-upload-pack>] [<host>:]<directory> [<refs>...]
  12
  13 DESCRIPTION
  14 -----------
  15 Invokes 'git-upload-pack' on a potentially remote repository,
  16 and asks it to send objects missing from this repository, to
  17 update the named heads.  The list of commits available locally
  18 is found out by scanning local $GIT_DIR/refs/ and sent to
  19 'git-upload-pack' running on the other end.
  20
  21 This command degenerates to download everything to complete the
  22 asked refs from the remote side when the local side does not
  23 have a common ancestor commit.
  24
  25
  26 OPTIONS
  27 -------
  28 -q::
  29         Pass '-q' flag to 'git-unpack-objects'; this makes the
  30         cloning process less verbose.
  31
  32 -k::
  33         Do not invoke 'git-unpack-objects' on received data, but
  34         create a single packfile out of it instead, and store it
  35         in the object database.
  36
  37 --exec=<git-upload-pack>::
  38         Use this to specify the path to 'git-upload-pack' on the
  39         remote side, if is not found on your $PATH.
  40         Installations of sshd ignores the user's environment
  41         setup scripts for login shells (e.g. .bash_profile) and
  42         your privately installed git may not be found on the system
  43         default $PATH.  Another workaround suggested is to set
  44         up your $PATH in ".bashrc", but this flag is for people
  45         who do not want to pay the overhead for non-interactive
  46         shells by having a lean .bashrc file (they set most of
  47         the things up in .bash_profile).
  48
  49 <host>::
  50         A remote host that houses the repository.  When this
  51         part is specified, 'git-upload-pack' is invoked via
  52         ssh.
  53
  54 <directory>::
  55         The repository to sync from.
  56
  57 <refs>...::
  58         The remote heads to update from. This is relative to
  59         $GIT_DIR (e.g. "HEAD", "refs/heads/master").  When
  60         unspecified, update from all heads the remote side has.
  61
  62
  63 Author
  64 ------
  65 Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
  66
  67 Documentation
  68 --------------
  69 Documentation by Junio C Hamano.
  70
  71 GIT
  72 ---
  73 Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite