1git-fetch(1) 2============ 3 4NAME 5---- 6git-fetch - Download objects and a head from another repository 7 8 9SYNOPSIS 10-------- 11'git-fetch' <options> <repository> <refspec>... 12 13 14DESCRIPTION 15----------- 16Fetches named heads or tags from another repository, along with 17the objects necessary to complete them. 18 19The ref names and their object names of fetched refs are stored 20in `.git/FETCH_HEAD`. This information is left for a later merge 21operation done by "git merge". 22 23 24OPTIONS 25------- 26include::fetch-options.txt[] 27 28include::pull-fetch-param.txt[] 29 30include::urls.txt[] 31 32SEE ALSO 33-------- 34gitlink:git-pull[1] 35 36 37Author 38------ 39Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> and 40Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> 41 42Documentation 43------------- 44Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>. 45 46GIT 47--- 48Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite