1-q, \--quiet:: 2 Pass --quiet to git-fetch-pack and silence any other internally 3 used programs. 4 5-v, \--verbose:: 6 Be verbose. 7 8-a, \--append:: 9 Append ref names and object names of fetched refs to the 10 existing contents of `.git/FETCH_HEAD`. Without this 11 option old data in `.git/FETCH_HEAD` will be overwritten. 12 13\--upload-pack <upload-pack>:: 14 When given, and the repository to fetch from is handled 15 by 'git-fetch-pack', '--exec=<upload-pack>' is passed to 16 the command to specify non-default path for the command 17 run on the other end. 18 19-f, \--force:: 20 When `git-fetch` is used with `<rbranch>:<lbranch>` 21 refspec, it refuses to update the local branch 22 `<lbranch>` unless the remote branch `<rbranch>` it 23 fetches is a descendant of `<lbranch>`. This option 24 overrides that check. 25 26-n, \--no-tags:: 27 By default, `git-fetch` fetches tags that point at 28 objects that are downloaded from the remote repository 29 and stores them locally. This option disables this 30 automatic tag following. 31 32-t, \--tags:: 33 Most of the tags are fetched automatically as branch 34 heads are downloaded, but tags that do not point at 35 objects reachable from the branch heads that are being 36 tracked will not be fetched by this mechanism. This 37 flag lets all tags and their associated objects be 38 downloaded. 39 40-k, \--keep:: 41 Keep downloaded pack. 42 43-u, \--update-head-ok:: 44 By default `git-fetch` refuses to update the head which 45 corresponds to the current branch. This flag disables the 46 check. This is purely for the internal use for `git-pull` 47 to communicate with `git-fetch`, and unless you are 48 implementing your own Porcelain you are not supposed to 49 use it. 50 51\--depth=<depth>:: 52 Deepen the history of a 'shallow' repository created by 53 `git clone` with `--depth=<depth>` option (see gitlink:git-clone[1]) 54 by the specified number of commits.