1git-fetch-pack(1) 2================= 3 4NAME 5---- 6git-fetch-pack - Receive missing objects from another repository 7 8 9SYNOPSIS 10-------- 11'git-fetch-pack' [--all] [--quiet|-q] [--keep|-k] [--thin] [--exec=<git-upload-pack>] [--depth=<n>] [-v] [<host>:]<directory> [<refs>...] 12 13DESCRIPTION 14----------- 15Usually you would want to use gitlink:git-fetch[1] which is a 16higher level wrapper of this command instead. 17 18Invokes 'git-upload-pack' on a potentially remote repository, 19and asks it to send objects missing from this repository, to 20update the named heads. The list of commits available locally 21is found out by scanning local $GIT_DIR/refs/ and sent to 22'git-upload-pack' running on the other end. 23 24This command degenerates to download everything to complete the 25asked refs from the remote side when the local side does not 26have a common ancestor commit. 27 28 29OPTIONS 30------- 31\--all:: 32 Fetch all remote refs. 33 34\--quiet, \-q:: 35 Pass '-q' flag to 'git-unpack-objects'; this makes the 36 cloning process less verbose. 37 38\--keep, \-k:: 39 Do not invoke 'git-unpack-objects' on received data, but 40 create a single packfile out of it instead, and store it 41 in the object database. If provided twice then the pack is 42 locked against repacking. 43 44\--thin:: 45 Spend extra cycles to minimize the number of objects to be sent. 46 Use it on slower connection. 47 48\--exec=<git-upload-pack>:: 49 Use this to specify the path to 'git-upload-pack' on the 50 remote side, if is not found on your $PATH. 51 Installations of sshd ignores the user's environment 52 setup scripts for login shells (e.g. .bash_profile) and 53 your privately installed git may not be found on the system 54 default $PATH. Another workaround suggested is to set 55 up your $PATH in ".bashrc", but this flag is for people 56 who do not want to pay the overhead for non-interactive 57 shells by having a lean .bashrc file (they set most of 58 the things up in .bash_profile). 59 60\--depth=<n>:: 61 Limit fetching to ancestor-chains not longer than n. 62 63\-v:: 64 Run verbosely. 65 66<host>:: 67 A remote host that houses the repository. When this 68 part is specified, 'git-upload-pack' is invoked via 69 ssh. 70 71<directory>:: 72 The repository to sync from. 73 74<refs>...:: 75 The remote heads to update from. This is relative to 76 $GIT_DIR (e.g. "HEAD", "refs/heads/master"). When 77 unspecified, update from all heads the remote side has. 78 79 80Author 81------ 82Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> 83 84Documentation 85-------------- 86Documentation by Junio C Hamano. 87 88GIT 89--- 90Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite