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 [verse]
  12 'git fetch-pack' [--all] [--quiet|-q] [--keep|-k] [--thin] [--include-tag]
  13         [--upload-pack=<git-upload-pack>]
  14         [--depth=<n>] [--no-progress]
  15         [-v] <repository> [<refs>...]
  16
  17 DESCRIPTION
  18 -----------
  19 Usually you would want to use 'git fetch', which is a
  20 higher level wrapper of this command, instead.
  21
  22 Invokes 'git-upload-pack' on a possibly remote repository
  23 and asks it to send objects missing from this repository, to
  24 update the named heads.  The list of commits available locally
  25 is found out by scanning the local refs/ hierarchy and sent to
  26 'git-upload-pack' running on the other end.
  27
  28 This command degenerates to download everything to complete the
  29 asked refs from the remote side when the local side does not
  30 have a common ancestor commit.
  31
  32
  33 OPTIONS
  34 -------
  35 --all::
  36         Fetch all remote refs.
  37
  38 --stdin::
  39         Take the list of refs from stdin, one per line. If there
  40         are refs specified on the command line in addition to this
  41         option, then the refs from stdin are processed after those
  42         on the command line.
  43 +
  44 If `--stateless-rpc` is specified together with this option then
  45 the list of refs must be in packet format (pkt-line). Each ref must
  46 be in a separate packet, and the list must end with a flush packet.
  47
  48 -q::
  49 --quiet::
  50         Pass `-q` flag to 'git unpack-objects'; this makes the
  51         cloning process less verbose.
  52
  53 -k::
  54 --keep::
  55         Do not invoke 'git unpack-objects' on received data, but
  56         create a single packfile out of it instead, and store it
  57         in the object database. If provided twice then the pack is
  58         locked against repacking.
  59
  60 --thin::
  61         Fetch a "thin" pack, which records objects in deltified form based
  62         on objects not included in the pack to reduce network traffic.
  63
  64 --include-tag::
  65         If the remote side supports it, annotated tags objects will
  66         be downloaded on the same connection as the other objects if
  67         the object the tag references is downloaded.  The caller must
  68         otherwise determine the tags this option made available.
  69
  70 --upload-pack=<git-upload-pack>::
  71         Use this to specify the path to 'git-upload-pack' on the
  72         remote side, if is not found on your $PATH.
  73         Installations of sshd ignores the user's environment
  74         setup scripts for login shells (e.g. .bash_profile) and
  75         your privately installed git may not be found on the system
  76         default $PATH.  Another workaround suggested is to set
  77         up your $PATH in ".bashrc", but this flag is for people
  78         who do not want to pay the overhead for non-interactive
  79         shells by having a lean .bashrc file (they set most of
  80         the things up in .bash_profile).
  81
  82 --exec=<git-upload-pack>::
  83         Same as --upload-pack=<git-upload-pack>.
  84
  85 --depth=<n>::
  86         Limit fetching to ancestor-chains not longer than n.
  87         'git-upload-pack' treats the special depth 2147483647 as
  88         infinite even if there is an ancestor-chain that long.
  89
  90 --shallow-since=<date>::
  91         Deepen or shorten the history of a shallow repository to
  92         include all reachable commits after <date>.
  93
  94 --shallow-exclude=<revision>::
  95         Deepen or shorten the history of a shallow repository to
  96         exclude commits reachable from a specified remote branch or tag.
  97         This option can be specified multiple times.
  98
  99 --deepen-relative::
 100         Argument --depth specifies the number of commits from the
 101         current shallow boundary instead of from the tip of each
 102         remote branch history.
 103
 104 --no-progress::
 105         Do not show the progress.
 106
 107 --check-self-contained-and-connected::
 108         Output "connectivity-ok" if the received pack is
 109         self-contained and connected.
 110
 111 -v::
 112         Run verbosely.
 113
 114 <repository>::
 115         The URL to the remote repository.
 116
 117 <refs>...::
 118         The remote heads to update from. This is relative to
 119         $GIT_DIR (e.g. "HEAD", "refs/heads/master").  When
 120         unspecified, update from all heads the remote side has.
 121 +
 122 If the remote has enabled the options `uploadpack.allowTipSHA1InWant`,
 123 `uploadpack.allowReachableSHA1InWant`, or `uploadpack.allowAnySHA1InWant`,
 124 they may alternatively be 40-hex sha1s present on the remote.
 125
 126 SEE ALSO
 127 --------
 128 linkgit:git-fetch[1]
 129
 130 GIT
 131 ---
 132 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite