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NAME
git-fetch-pack - Receive missing objects from another repository
SYNOPSIS
git-fetch-pack [--all] [--quiet|-q] [--keep|-k] [--thin]
[--upload-pack=<git-upload-pack>] [--depth=<n>] [--no-progress] [-v]
[<host>:]<directory> [<refs>...]
DESCRIPTION
Usually you would want to use git-fetch(1) which is a higher level
wrapper of this command instead.
Invokes git-upload-pack on a potentially remote repository, and asks it
to send objects missing from this repository, to update the named
heads. The list of commits available locally is found out by scanning
local $GIT_DIR/refs/ and sent to git-upload-pack running on the other
end.
This command degenerates to download everything to complete the asked
refs from the remote side when the local side does not have a common
ancestor commit.
OPTIONS
--all
Fetch all remote refs.
--quiet, \-q
Pass -q flag to git-unpack-objects; this makes the cloning process
less verbose.
--keep, \-k
Do not invoke git-unpack-objects on received data, but create a
single packfile out of it instead, and store it in the object
database. If provided twice then the pack is locked against
repacking.
--thin
Spend extra cycles to minimize the number of objects to be sent.
Use it on slower connection.
--upload-pack=<git-upload-pack>
Use this to specify the path to git-upload-pack on the remote side,
if is not found on your $PATH. Installations of sshd ignores the
user´s environment setup scripts for login shells (e.g.
.bash_profile) and your privately installed git may not be found on
the system default $PATH. Another workaround suggested is to set up
your $PATH in ".bashrc", but this flag is for people who do not
want to pay the overhead for non-interactive shells by having a
lean .bashrc file (they set most of the things up in
.bash_profile).
--exec=<git-upload-pack>
Same as --upload-pack=<git-upload-pack>.
--depth=<n>
Limit fetching to ancestor-chains not longer than n.
--no-progress
Do not show the progress.
\-v
Run verbosely.
<host>
A remote host that houses the repository. When this part is
specified, git-upload-pack is invoked via ssh.
<directory>
The repository to sync from.
<refs>...
The remote heads to update from. This is relative to $GIT_DIR (e.g.
"HEAD", "refs/heads/master"). When unspecified, update from all
heads the remote side has.
AUTHOR
Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
DOCUMENTATION
Documentation by Junio C Hamano.
GIT
Part of the git(7) suite