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] [--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 --exec=<git-upload-pack>::
  33         Use this to specify the path to 'git-upload-pack' on the
  34         remote side, if is not found on your $PATH.
  35         Installations of sshd ignores the user's environment
  36         setup scripts for login shells (e.g. .bash_profile) and
  37         your privately installed git may not be found on the system
  38         default $PATH.  Another workaround suggested is to set
  39         up your $PATH in ".bashrc", but this flag is for people
  40         who do not want to pay the overhead for non-interactive
  41         shells by having a lean .bashrc file (they set most of
  42         the things up in .bash_profile).
  43
  44 <host>::
  45         A remote host that houses the repository.  When this
  46         part is specified, 'git-upload-pack' is invoked via
  47         ssh.
  48
  49 <directory>::
  50         The repository to sync from.
  51
  52 <refs>...::
  53         The remote heads to update from. This is relative to
  54         $GIT_DIR (e.g. "HEAD", "refs/heads/master").  When
  55         unspecified, update from all heads the remote side has.
  56
  57
  58 Author
  59 ------
  60 Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
  61
  62 Documentation
  63 --------------
  64 Documentation by Junio C Hamano.
  65
  66 GIT
  67 ---
  68 Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite