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'git fetch' <options> <group> 14 15'git fetch' --multiple <options> [<repository> | <group>]... 16 17'git fetch' --all <options> 18 19 20DESCRIPTION 21----------- 22Fetches named heads or tags from one or more other repositories, 23along with the objects necessary to complete them. 24 25The ref names and their object names of fetched refs are stored 26in `.git/FETCH_HEAD`. This information is left for a later merge 27operation done by 'git-merge'. 28 29When <refspec> stores the fetched result in tracking branches, 30the tags that point at these branches are automatically 31followed. This is done by first fetching from the remote using 32the given <refspec>s, and if the repository has objects that are 33pointed by remote tags that it does not yet have, then fetch 34those missing tags. If the other end has tags that point at 35branches you are not interested in, you will not get them. 36 37'git fetch' can fetch from either a single named repository, or 38or from several repositories at once if <group> is given and 39there is a remotes.<group> entry in the configuration file. 40(See linkgit:git-config[1]). 41 42OPTIONS 43------- 44include::fetch-options.txt[] 45 46include::pull-fetch-param.txt[] 47 48include::urls-remotes.txt[] 49 50SEE ALSO 51-------- 52linkgit:git-pull[1] 53 54 55Author 56------ 57Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> and 58Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> 59 60Documentation 61------------- 62Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>. 63 64GIT 65--- 66Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite