git-fetch-pack
(1)
Name
git-fetch-pack - Receive missing objects from another
repository
Synopsis
git fetch-pack [--all] [--quiet|-q] [--keep|-k] [--thin] [--include-tag] [--upload-pack=<git-upload-pack>] [--depth=<n>] [--no-progress] [-v] [<host>:]<directory> [<refs>...]
Description
Git Manual GIT-FETCH-PACK(1)
NAME
git-fetch-pack - Receive missing objects from another
repository
SYNOPSIS
git fetch-pack [--all] [--quiet|-q] [--keep|-k] [--thin] [--include-tag] [--upload-pack=<git-upload-pack>] [--depth=<n>] [--no-progress] [-v] [<host>:]<directory> [<refs>...]
DESCRIPTION
Usually you would want to use git fetch, which is a higher
level wrapper of this command, instead.
Invokes git-upload-pack on a possibly 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 the local refs/ hierarchy
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.
-q, --quiet
Pass -q flag to git unpack-objects; this makes the
cloning process less verbose.
-k, --keep
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
Fetch a "thin" pack, which records objects in deltified
form based on objects not included in the pack to reduce
network traffic.
--include-tag
If the remote side supports it, annotated tags objects
will be downloaded on the same connection as the other
objects if the object the tag references is downloaded.
The caller must otherwise determine the tags this option
made available.
--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
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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.
GIT
Part of the git(1) suite
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following
attributes:
+---------------+--------------------------+
|ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+---------------+--------------------------+
|Availability | developer/versioning/git |
+---------------+--------------------------+
|Stability | Uncommitted |
+---------------+--------------------------+
NOTES
This software was built from source available at
https://java.net/projects/solaris-userland. The original
community source was downloaded from http://git-
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core.googlecode.com/files/git-1.7.9.2.tar.gz
Further information about this software can be found on the
open source community website at http://git-scm.com/.
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