1git-fetch-pack(1) 2================= 3v0.1, July 2005 4 5NAME 6---- 7git-fetch-pack - Receive missing objects from another repository. 8 9 10SYNOPSIS 11-------- 12git-fetch-pack [-q] [--exec=<git-upload-pack>] [<host>:]<directory> [<refs>...] 13 14DESCRIPTION 15----------- 16Invokes 'git-upload-pack' on a potentially remote repository, 17and asks it to send objects missing from this repository, to 18update the named heads. The list of commits available locally 19is found out by scanning local $GIT_DIR/refs/ and sent to 20'git-upload-pack' running on the other end. 21 22This command degenerates to download everything to complete the 23asked refs from the remote side when the local side does not 24have a common ancestor commit. 25 26 27OPTIONS 28------- 29-q:: 30 Pass '-q' flag to 'git-unpack-objects'; this makes the 31 cloning process less verbose. 32 33--exec=<git-upload-pack>:: 34 Use this to specify the path to 'git-upload-pack' on the 35 remote side, if is not found on your $PATH. 36 Installations of sshd ignores the user's environment 37 setup scripts for login shells (e.g. .bash_profile) and 38 your privately installed GIT may not be found on the system 39 default $PATH. Another workaround suggested is to set 40 up your $PATH in ".bashrc", but this flag is for people 41 who do not want to pay the overhead for non-interactive 42 shells by having a lean .bashrc file (they set most of 43 the things up in .bash_profile). 44 45<host>:: 46 A remote host that houses the repository. When this 47 part is specified, 'git-upload-pack' is invoked via 48 ssh. 49 50<directory>:: 51 The repository to sync from. 52 53<refs>...:: 54 The remote heads to update from. This is relative to 55 $GIT_DIR (e.g. "HEAD", "refs/heads/master"). When 56 unspecified, update from all heads the remote side has. 57 58 59Author 60------ 61Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> 62 63Documentation 64-------------- 65Documentation by Junio C Hamano. 66 67GIT 68--- 69Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite