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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
  18*NOTE*: use of this command without -a is deprecated.  The -a
  19behaviour will become the default in a future release.
  20
  21OPTIONS
  22-------
  23commit-id::
  24        Either the hash or the filename under [URL]/refs/ to
  25        pull.
  26
  27-c::
  28        Get the commit objects.
  29-t::
  30        Get trees associated with the commit objects.
  31-a::
  32        Get all the objects.
  33-v::
  34        Report what is downloaded.
  35
  36-w <filename>::
  37        Writes the commit-id into the filename under $GIT_DIR/refs/<filename> on
  38        the local end after the transfer is complete.
  39
  40--stdin::
  41        Instead of a commit id on the command line (which is not expected in this
  42        case), 'git http-fetch' expects lines on stdin in the format
  43
  44                <commit-id>['\t'<filename-as-in--w>]
  45
  46--recover::
  47        Verify that everything reachable from target is fetched.  Used after
  48        an earlier fetch is interrupted.
  49
  50GIT
  51---
  52Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite