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' [-q] [-k] [--exec=<git-upload-pack>] [<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-q:: 32 Pass '-q' flag to 'git-unpack-objects'; this makes the 33 cloning process less verbose. 34 35-k:: 36 Do not invoke 'git-unpack-objects' on received data, but 37 create a single packfile out of it instead, and store it 38 in the object database. If provided twice then the pack is 39 locked against repacking. 40 41--exec=<git-upload-pack>:: 42 Use this to specify the path to 'git-upload-pack' on the 43 remote side, if is not found on your $PATH. 44 Installations of sshd ignores the user's environment 45 setup scripts for login shells (e.g. .bash_profile) and 46 your privately installed git may not be found on the system 47 default $PATH. Another workaround suggested is to set 48 up your $PATH in ".bashrc", but this flag is for people 49 who do not want to pay the overhead for non-interactive 50 shells by having a lean .bashrc file (they set most of 51 the things up in .bash_profile). 52 53<host>:: 54 A remote host that houses the repository. When this 55 part is specified, 'git-upload-pack' is invoked via 56 ssh. 57 58<directory>:: 59 The repository to sync from. 60 61<refs>...:: 62 The remote heads to update from. This is relative to 63 $GIT_DIR (e.g. "HEAD", "refs/heads/master"). When 64 unspecified, update from all heads the remote side has. 65 66 67Author 68------ 69Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> 70 71Documentation 72-------------- 73Documentation by Junio C Hamano. 74 75GIT 76--- 77Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite