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   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] <repository> [<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        'git-upload-pack' treats the special depth 2147483647 as
  88        infinite even if there is an ancestor-chain that long.
  89
  90--no-progress::
  91        Do not show the progress.
  92
  93--check-self-contained-and-connected::
  94        Output "connectivity-ok" if the received pack is
  95        self-contained and connected.
  96
  97-v::
  98        Run verbosely.
  99
 100<repository>::
 101        The URL to the remote repository.
 102
 103<refs>...::
 104        The remote heads to update from. This is relative to
 105        $GIT_DIR (e.g. "HEAD", "refs/heads/master").  When
 106        unspecified, update from all heads the remote side has.
 107
 108SEE ALSO
 109--------
 110linkgit:git-fetch[1]
 111
 112GIT
 113---
 114Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite