Documentation / fetch-options.txton commit git-clone.txt: remove shallow clone limitations (82fba2b)
   1--all::
   2        Fetch all remotes.
   3
   4-a::
   5--append::
   6        Append ref names and object names of fetched refs to the
   7        existing contents of `.git/FETCH_HEAD`.  Without this
   8        option old data in `.git/FETCH_HEAD` will be overwritten.
   9
  10--depth=<depth>::
  11        Deepen or shorten the history of a 'shallow' repository created by
  12        `git clone` with `--depth=<depth>` option (see linkgit:git-clone[1])
  13        to the specified number of commits from the tip of each remote
  14        branch history. Tags for the deepened commits are not fetched.
  15
  16--unshallow::
  17        If the source repository is complete, convert a shallow
  18        repository to a complete one, removing all the limitations
  19        imposed by shallow repositories.
  20+
  21If the source repository is shallow, fetch as much as possible so that
  22the current repository has the same history as the source repository.
  23
  24--update-shallow::
  25        By default when fetching from a shallow repository,
  26        `git fetch` refuses refs that require updating
  27        .git/shallow. This option updates .git/shallow and accept such
  28        refs.
  29
  30ifndef::git-pull[]
  31--dry-run::
  32        Show what would be done, without making any changes.
  33endif::git-pull[]
  34
  35-f::
  36--force::
  37        When 'git fetch' is used with `<rbranch>:<lbranch>`
  38        refspec, it refuses to update the local branch
  39        `<lbranch>` unless the remote branch `<rbranch>` it
  40        fetches is a descendant of `<lbranch>`.  This option
  41        overrides that check.
  42
  43-k::
  44--keep::
  45        Keep downloaded pack.
  46
  47ifndef::git-pull[]
  48--multiple::
  49        Allow several <repository> and <group> arguments to be
  50        specified. No <refspec>s may be specified.
  51
  52-p::
  53--prune::
  54        After fetching, remove any remote-tracking branches which
  55        no longer exist on the remote.
  56endif::git-pull[]
  57
  58ifdef::git-pull[]
  59--no-tags::
  60endif::git-pull[]
  61ifndef::git-pull[]
  62-n::
  63--no-tags::
  64endif::git-pull[]
  65        By default, tags that point at objects that are downloaded
  66        from the remote repository are fetched and stored locally.
  67        This option disables this automatic tag following. The default
  68        behavior for a remote may be specified with the remote.<name>.tagopt
  69        setting. See linkgit:git-config[1].
  70
  71ifndef::git-pull[]
  72-t::
  73--tags::
  74        This is a short-hand for giving `refs/tags/*:refs/tags/*`
  75        refspec from the command line, to ask all tags to be fetched
  76        and stored locally.  Because this acts as an explicit
  77        refspec, the default refspecs (configured with the
  78        remote.$name.fetch variable) are overridden and not used.
  79
  80--recurse-submodules[=yes|on-demand|no]::
  81        This option controls if and under what conditions new commits of
  82        populated submodules should be fetched too. It can be used as a
  83        boolean option to completely disable recursion when set to 'no' or to
  84        unconditionally recurse into all populated submodules when set to
  85        'yes', which is the default when this option is used without any
  86        value. Use 'on-demand' to only recurse into a populated submodule
  87        when the superproject retrieves a commit that updates the submodule's
  88        reference to a commit that isn't already in the local submodule
  89        clone.
  90
  91--no-recurse-submodules::
  92        Disable recursive fetching of submodules (this has the same effect as
  93        using the '--recurse-submodules=no' option).
  94
  95--submodule-prefix=<path>::
  96        Prepend <path> to paths printed in informative messages
  97        such as "Fetching submodule foo".  This option is used
  98        internally when recursing over submodules.
  99
 100--recurse-submodules-default=[yes|on-demand]::
 101        This option is used internally to temporarily provide a
 102        non-negative default value for the --recurse-submodules
 103        option.  All other methods of configuring fetch's submodule
 104        recursion (such as settings in linkgit:gitmodules[5] and
 105        linkgit:git-config[1]) override this option, as does
 106        specifying --[no-]recurse-submodules directly.
 107endif::git-pull[]
 108
 109-u::
 110--update-head-ok::
 111        By default 'git fetch' refuses to update the head which
 112        corresponds to the current branch.  This flag disables the
 113        check.  This is purely for the internal use for 'git pull'
 114        to communicate with 'git fetch', and unless you are
 115        implementing your own Porcelain you are not supposed to
 116        use it.
 117
 118--upload-pack <upload-pack>::
 119        When given, and the repository to fetch from is handled
 120        by 'git fetch-pack', '--exec=<upload-pack>' is passed to
 121        the command to specify non-default path for the command
 122        run on the other end.
 123
 124ifndef::git-pull[]
 125-q::
 126--quiet::
 127        Pass --quiet to git-fetch-pack and silence any other internally
 128        used git commands. Progress is not reported to the standard error
 129        stream.
 130
 131-v::
 132--verbose::
 133        Be verbose.
 134endif::git-pull[]
 135
 136--progress::
 137        Progress status is reported on the standard error stream
 138        by default when it is attached to a terminal, unless -q
 139        is specified. This flag forces progress status even if the
 140        standard error stream is not directed to a terminal.