1git-fetch(1) 2============ 3 4NAME 5---- 6git-fetch - Download objects and a head from another repository. 7 8 9SYNOPSIS 10-------- 11'git-fetch' <repository> <refspec>... 12 13 14DESCRIPTION 15----------- 16Fetches named heads or tags from another repository, along with 17the objects necessary to complete them. 18 19The ref names and their object names of fetched refs are stored 20in $GIT_DIR/FETCH_HEAD. This information is left for a later merge 21operation done by "git resolve" or "git octopus". 22 23 24OPTIONS 25------- 26include::pull-fetch-param.txt[] 27 28-u, \--update-head-ok:: 29 By default 'git-fetch' refuses to update the head which 30 corresponds to the current branch. This flag disables the 31 check. Note that fetching into the current branch will not 32 update the index and working directory, so use it with care. 33 34 35Author 36------ 37Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> and 38Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> 39 40Documentation 41------------- 42Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>. 43 44GIT 45--- 46Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite