6 git-fetch-pack - Receive missing objects from another repository
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>...]
19 Usually you would want to use 'git fetch', which is a
20 higher level wrapper of this command, instead.
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.
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.
36 Fetch all remote refs.
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
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.
50 Pass `-q` flag to 'git unpack-objects'; this makes the
51 cloning process less verbose.
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.
61 Fetch a "thin" pack, which records objects in deltified form based
62 on objects not included in the pack to reduce network traffic.
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.
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).
82 --exec=<git-upload-pack>::
83 Same as --upload-pack=<git-upload-pack>.
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.
90 --shallow-since=<date>::
91 Deepen or shorten the history of a shallow'repository to
92 include all reachable commits after <date>.
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.
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.
105 Do not show the progress.
107 --check-self-contained-and-connected::
108 Output "connectivity-ok" if the received pack is
109 self-contained and connected.
115 The URL to the remote repository.
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.
122 If the remote has enabled the options `uploadpack.allowTipSHA1InWant` or
123 `uploadpack.allowReachableSHA1InWant`, they may alternatively be 40-hex
124 sha1s present on the remote.
132 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite