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' [-q] [-k] [--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-k:: 33 Do not invoke 'git-unpack-objects' on received data, but 34 create a single packfile out of it instead, and store it 35 in the object database. 36 37--exec=<git-upload-pack>:: 38 Use this to specify the path to 'git-upload-pack' on the 39 remote side, if is not found on your $PATH. 40 Installations of sshd ignores the user's environment 41 setup scripts for login shells (e.g. .bash_profile) and 42 your privately installed git may not be found on the system 43 default $PATH. Another workaround suggested is to set 44 up your $PATH in ".bashrc", but this flag is for people 45 who do not want to pay the overhead for non-interactive 46 shells by having a lean .bashrc file (they set most of 47 the things up in .bash_profile). 48 49<host>:: 50 A remote host that houses the repository. When this 51 part is specified, 'git-upload-pack' is invoked via 52 ssh. 53 54<directory>:: 55 The repository to sync from. 56 57<refs>...:: 58 The remote heads to update from. This is relative to 59 $GIT_DIR (e.g. "HEAD", "refs/heads/master"). When 60 unspecified, update from all heads the remote side has. 61 62 63Author 64------ 65Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> 66 67Documentation 68-------------- 69Documentation by Junio C Hamano. 70 71GIT 72--- 73Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite