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   1git-http-fetch(1)
   2=================
   3
   4NAME
   5----
   6git-http-fetch - Download from a remote git repository via HTTP
   7
   8
   9SYNOPSIS
  10--------
  11[verse]
  12'git http-fetch' [-c] [-t] [-a] [-d] [-v] [-w filename] [--recover] [--stdin] <commit> <url>
  13
  14DESCRIPTION
  15-----------
  16Downloads a remote git repository via HTTP.
  17
  18OPTIONS
  19-------
  20commit-id::
  21        Either the hash or the filename under [URL]/refs/ to
  22        pull.
  23
  24-c::
  25        Get the commit objects.
  26-t::
  27        Get trees associated with the commit objects.
  28-a::
  29        Get all the objects.
  30-v::
  31        Report what is downloaded.
  32
  33-w <filename>::
  34        Writes the commit-id into the filename under $GIT_DIR/refs/<filename> on
  35        the local end after the transfer is complete.
  36
  37--stdin::
  38        Instead of a commit id on the command line (which is not expected in this
  39        case), 'git http-fetch' expects lines on stdin in the format
  40
  41                <commit-id>['\t'<filename-as-in--w>]
  42
  43--recover::
  44        Verify that everything reachable from target is fetched.  Used after
  45        an earlier fetch is interrupted.
  46
  47GIT
  48---
  49Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite