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. If provided twice then the pack is 36 locked against repacking. 37 38--exec=<git-upload-pack>:: 39 Use this to specify the path to 'git-upload-pack' on the 40 remote side, if is not found on your $PATH. 41 Installations of sshd ignores the user's environment 42 setup scripts for login shells (e.g. .bash_profile) and 43 your privately installed git may not be found on the system 44 default $PATH. Another workaround suggested is to set 45 up your $PATH in ".bashrc", but this flag is for people 46 who do not want to pay the overhead for non-interactive 47 shells by having a lean .bashrc file (they set most of 48 the things up in .bash_profile). 49 50<host>:: 51 A remote host that houses the repository. When this 52 part is specified, 'git-upload-pack' is invoked via 53 ssh. 54 55<directory>:: 56 The repository to sync from. 57 58<refs>...:: 59 The remote heads to update from. This is relative to 60 $GIT_DIR (e.g. "HEAD", "refs/heads/master"). When 61 unspecified, update from all heads the remote side has. 62 63 64Author 65------ 66Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> 67 68Documentation 69-------------- 70Documentation by Junio C Hamano. 71 72GIT 73--- 74Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite