1git-fetch(1) 2============ 3 4NAME 5---- 6git-fetch - Download objects and a head from another repository. 7 8 9SYNOPSIS 10-------- 11'git-fetch' <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_DIR/FETCH_HEAD. This information is left for a later merge 21operation done by "git resolve" or "git octopus". 22 23 24OPTIONS 25------- 26include::pull-fetch-param.txt[] 27 28-a, \--append:: 29 Append ref names and object names of fetched refs to the 30 existing contents of $GIT_DIR/FETCH_HEAD. Without this 31 option old data in $GIT_DIR/FETCH_HEAD will be overwritten. 32 33-u, \--update-head-ok:: 34 By default 'git-fetch' refuses to update the head which 35 corresponds to the current branch. This flag disables the 36 check. Note that fetching into the current branch will not 37 update the index and working directory, so use it with care. 38 39 40SEE ALSO 41-------- 42gitlink:git-pull[1] 43 44 45Author 46------ 47Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> and 48Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> 49 50Documentation 51------------- 52Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>. 53 54GIT 55--- 56Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite