1git-fetch-pack(1) 2================= 3 4NAME 5---- 6git-fetch-pack - Receive missing objects from another repository 7 8 9SYNOPSIS 10-------- 11[verse] 12'git fetch-pack' [--all] [--quiet|-q] [--keep|-k] [--thin] [--include-tag] 13 [--upload-pack=<git-upload-pack>] 14 [--depth=<n>] [--no-progress] 15 [-v] [<host>:]<directory> [<refs>...] 16 17DESCRIPTION 18----------- 19Usually you would want to use 'git fetch', which is a 20higher level wrapper of this command, instead. 21 22Invokes 'git-upload-pack' on a possibly remote repository 23and asks it to send objects missing from this repository, to 24update the named heads. The list of commits available locally 25is found out by scanning the local refs/ hierarchy and sent to 26'git-upload-pack' running on the other end. 27 28This command degenerates to download everything to complete the 29asked refs from the remote side when the local side does not 30have a common ancestor commit. 31 32 33OPTIONS 34------- 35--all:: 36 Fetch all remote refs. 37 38--stdin:: 39 Take the list of refs from stdin, one per line. If there 40 are refs specified on the command line in addition to this 41 option, then the refs from stdin are processed after those 42 on the command line. 43+ 44If '--stateless-rpc' is specified together with this option then 45the list of refs must be in packet format (pkt-line). Each ref must 46be in a separate packet, and the list must end with a flush packet. 47 48-q:: 49--quiet:: 50 Pass '-q' flag to 'git unpack-objects'; this makes the 51 cloning process less verbose. 52 53-k:: 54--keep:: 55 Do not invoke 'git unpack-objects' on received data, but 56 create a single packfile out of it instead, and store it 57 in the object database. If provided twice then the pack is 58 locked against repacking. 59 60--thin:: 61 Fetch a "thin" pack, which records objects in deltified form based 62 on objects not included in the pack to reduce network traffic. 63 64--include-tag:: 65 If the remote side supports it, annotated tags objects will 66 be downloaded on the same connection as the other objects if 67 the object the tag references is downloaded. The caller must 68 otherwise determine the tags this option made available. 69 70--upload-pack=<git-upload-pack>:: 71 Use this to specify the path to 'git-upload-pack' on the 72 remote side, if is not found on your $PATH. 73 Installations of sshd ignores the user's environment 74 setup scripts for login shells (e.g. .bash_profile) and 75 your privately installed git may not be found on the system 76 default $PATH. Another workaround suggested is to set 77 up your $PATH in ".bashrc", but this flag is for people 78 who do not want to pay the overhead for non-interactive 79 shells by having a lean .bashrc file (they set most of 80 the things up in .bash_profile). 81 82--exec=<git-upload-pack>:: 83 Same as \--upload-pack=<git-upload-pack>. 84 85--depth=<n>:: 86 Limit fetching to ancestor-chains not longer than n. 87 88--no-progress:: 89 Do not show the progress. 90 91-v:: 92 Run verbosely. 93 94<host>:: 95 A remote host that houses the repository. When this 96 part is specified, 'git-upload-pack' is invoked via 97 ssh. 98 99<directory>:: 100 The repository to sync from. 101 102<refs>...:: 103 The remote heads to update from. This is relative to 104 $GIT_DIR (e.g. "HEAD", "refs/heads/master"). When 105 unspecified, update from all heads the remote side has. 106 107GIT 108--- 109Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite