1git-fetch(1) 2============ 3 4NAME 5---- 6git-fetch - Download objects and refs from another repository 7 8 9SYNOPSIS 10-------- 11'git fetch' <options> <repository> <refspec>... 12 13 14DESCRIPTION 15----------- 16Fetches named heads or tags from another repository, along with 17the objects necessary to complete them. 18 19The ref names and their object names of fetched refs are stored 20in `.git/FETCH_HEAD`. This information is left for a later merge 21operation done by 'git-merge'. 22 23When <refspec> stores the fetched result in tracking branches, 24the tags that point at these branches are automatically 25followed. This is done by first fetching from the remote using 26the given <refspec>s, and if the repository has objects that are 27pointed by remote tags that it does not yet have, then fetch 28those missing tags. If the other end has tags that point at 29branches you are not interested in, you will not get them. 30 31 32OPTIONS 33------- 34include::fetch-options.txt[] 35 36include::pull-fetch-param.txt[] 37 38include::urls-remotes.txt[] 39 40SEE ALSO 41-------- 42linkgit:git-pull[1] 43 44 45Author 46------ 47Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> and 48Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> 49 50Documentation 51------------- 52Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>. 53 54GIT 55--- 56Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite