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' [--all] [--quiet|-q] [--keep|-k] [--thin] [--include-tag] [--upload-pack=<git-upload-pack>] [--depth=<n>] [--no-progress] [-v] [<host>:]<directory> [<refs>...] 12 13DESCRIPTION 14----------- 15Usually you would want to use 'git fetch', which is a 16higher level wrapper of this command, instead. 17 18Invokes 'git-upload-pack' on a possibly 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 the local refs/ hierarchy 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--all:: 32 Fetch all remote refs. 33 34-q:: 35--quiet:: 36 Pass '-q' flag to 'git unpack-objects'; this makes the 37 cloning process less verbose. 38 39-k:: 40--keep:: 41 Do not invoke 'git unpack-objects' on received data, but 42 create a single packfile out of it instead, and store it 43 in the object database. If provided twice then the pack is 44 locked against repacking. 45 46--thin:: 47 Fetch a "thin" pack, which records objects in deltified form based 48 on objects not included in the pack to reduce network traffic. 49 50--include-tag:: 51 If the remote side supports it, annotated tags objects will 52 be downloaded on the same connection as the other objects if 53 the object the tag references is downloaded. The caller must 54 otherwise determine the tags this option made available. 55 56--upload-pack=<git-upload-pack>:: 57 Use this to specify the path to 'git-upload-pack' on the 58 remote side, if is not found on your $PATH. 59 Installations of sshd ignores the user's environment 60 setup scripts for login shells (e.g. .bash_profile) and 61 your privately installed git may not be found on the system 62 default $PATH. Another workaround suggested is to set 63 up your $PATH in ".bashrc", but this flag is for people 64 who do not want to pay the overhead for non-interactive 65 shells by having a lean .bashrc file (they set most of 66 the things up in .bash_profile). 67 68--exec=<git-upload-pack>:: 69 Same as \--upload-pack=<git-upload-pack>. 70 71--depth=<n>:: 72 Limit fetching to ancestor-chains not longer than n. 73 74--no-progress:: 75 Do not show the progress. 76 77-v:: 78 Run verbosely. 79 80<host>:: 81 A remote host that houses the repository. When this 82 part is specified, 'git-upload-pack' is invoked via 83 ssh. 84 85<directory>:: 86 The repository to sync from. 87 88<refs>...:: 89 The remote heads to update from. This is relative to 90 $GIT_DIR (e.g. "HEAD", "refs/heads/master"). When 91 unspecified, update from all heads the remote side has. 92 93GIT 94--- 95Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite