1git-fetch-pack(1) 2================= 3 4NAME 5---- 6git-fetch-pack - Receive missing objects from another repository. 7 8 9SYNOPSIS 10-------- 11git-fetch-pack [-q] [--exec=<git-upload-pack>] [<host>:]<directory> [<refs>...] 12 13DESCRIPTION 14----------- 15Invokes 'git-upload-pack' on a potentially remote repository, 16and asks it to send objects missing from this repository, to 17update the named heads. The list of commits available locally 18is found out by scanning local $GIT_DIR/refs/ and sent to 19'git-upload-pack' running on the other end. 20 21This command degenerates to download everything to complete the 22asked refs from the remote side when the local side does not 23have a common ancestor commit. 24 25 26OPTIONS 27------- 28-q:: 29 Pass '-q' flag to 'git-unpack-objects'; this makes the 30 cloning process less verbose. 31 32--exec=<git-upload-pack>:: 33 Use this to specify the path to 'git-upload-pack' on the 34 remote side, if is not found on your $PATH. 35 Installations of sshd ignores the user's environment 36 setup scripts for login shells (e.g. .bash_profile) and 37 your privately installed git may not be found on the system 38 default $PATH. Another workaround suggested is to set 39 up your $PATH in ".bashrc", but this flag is for people 40 who do not want to pay the overhead for non-interactive 41 shells by having a lean .bashrc file (they set most of 42 the things up in .bash_profile). 43 44<host>:: 45 A remote host that houses the repository. When this 46 part is specified, 'git-upload-pack' is invoked via 47 ssh. 48 49<directory>:: 50 The repository to sync from. 51 52<refs>...:: 53 The remote heads to update from. This is relative to 54 $GIT_DIR (e.g. "HEAD", "refs/heads/master"). When 55 unspecified, update from all heads the remote side has. 56 57 58Author 59------ 60Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> 61 62Documentation 63-------------- 64Documentation by Junio C Hamano. 65 66GIT 67--- 68Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite