1git-fetch(1) 2============ 3 4NAME 5---- 6git-fetch - Download objects and refs from another repository 7 8 9SYNOPSIS 10-------- 11[verse] 12'git fetch' [<options>] [<repository> [<refspec>...]] 13'git fetch' [<options>] <group> 14'git fetch' --multiple [<options>] [(<repository> | <group>)...] 15'git fetch' --all [<options>] 16 17 18DESCRIPTION 19----------- 20Fetches named heads or tags from one or more other repositories, 21along with the objects necessary to complete them. 22 23The ref names and their object names of fetched refs are stored 24in `.git/FETCH_HEAD`. This information is left for a later merge 25operation done by 'git merge'. 26 27By default, tags are auto-followed. This means that when fetching 28from a remote, any tags on the remote that point to objects that exist 29in the local repository are fetched. The effect is to fetch tags that 30point at branches that you are interested in. This default behavior 31can be changed by using the --tags or --no-tags options, by 32configuring remote.<name>.tagopt, or by using a refspec that fetches 33tags explicitly. 34 35'git fetch' can fetch from either a single named repository, 36or from several repositories at once if <group> is given and 37there is a remotes.<group> entry in the configuration file. 38(See linkgit:git-config[1]). 39 40When no remote is specified, by default the `origin` remote will be used, 41unless there's an upstream branch configured for the current branch. 42 43OPTIONS 44------- 45include::fetch-options.txt[] 46 47include::pull-fetch-param.txt[] 48 49include::urls-remotes.txt[] 50 51 52EXAMPLES 53-------- 54 55* Update the remote-tracking branches: 56+ 57------------------------------------------------ 58$ git fetch origin 59------------------------------------------------ 60+ 61The above command copies all branches from the remote refs/heads/ 62namespace and stores them to the local refs/remotes/origin/ namespace, 63unless the branch.<name>.fetch option is used to specify a non-default 64refspec. 65 66* Using refspecs explicitly: 67+ 68------------------------------------------------ 69$ git fetch origin +pu:pu maint:tmp 70------------------------------------------------ 71+ 72This updates (or creates, as necessary) branches `pu` and `tmp` in 73the local repository by fetching from the branches (respectively) 74`pu` and `maint` from the remote repository. 75+ 76The `pu` branch will be updated even if it is does not fast-forward, 77because it is prefixed with a plus sign; `tmp` will not be. 78 79 80BUGS 81---- 82Using --recurse-submodules can only fetch new commits in already checked 83out submodules right now. When e.g. upstream added a new submodule in the 84just fetched commits of the superproject the submodule itself can not be 85fetched, making it impossible to check out that submodule later without 86having to do a fetch again. This is expected to be fixed in a future Git 87version. 88 89SEE ALSO 90-------- 91linkgit:git-pull[1] 92 93GIT 94--- 95Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite