SYNOPSIS
--------
-'git-fetch-pack' [--all] [--quiet|-q] [--keep|-k] [--thin] [--upload-pack=<git-upload-pack>] [--depth=<n>] [--no-progress] [-v] [<host>:]<directory> [<refs>...]
+[verse]
+'git fetch-pack' [--all] [--quiet|-q] [--keep|-k] [--thin] [--include-tag]
+ [--upload-pack=<git-upload-pack>]
+ [--depth=<n>] [--no-progress]
+ [-v] [<host>:]<directory> [<refs>...]
DESCRIPTION
-----------
-Usually you would want to use linkgit:git-fetch[1] which is a
-higher level wrapper of this command instead.
+Usually you would want to use 'git fetch', which is a
+higher level wrapper of this command, instead.
-Invokes 'git-upload-pack' on a potentially remote repository,
+Invokes 'git-upload-pack' on a possibly remote repository
and asks it to send objects missing from this repository, to
update the named heads. The list of commits available locally
-is found out by scanning local $GIT_DIR/refs/ and sent to
+is found out by scanning the local refs/ hierarchy and sent to
'git-upload-pack' running on the other end.
This command degenerates to download everything to complete the
OPTIONS
-------
-\--all::
+--all::
Fetch all remote refs.
-\--quiet, \-q::
- Pass '-q' flag to 'git-unpack-objects'; this makes the
+--stdin::
+ Take the list of refs from stdin, one per line. If there
+ are refs specified on the command line in addition to this
+ option, then the refs from stdin are processed after those
+ on the command line.
++
+If '--stateless-rpc' is specified together with this option then
+the list of refs must be in packet format (pkt-line). Each ref must
+be in a separate packet, and the list must end with a flush packet.
+
+-q::
+--quiet::
+ Pass '-q' flag to 'git unpack-objects'; this makes the
cloning process less verbose.
-\--keep, \-k::
- Do not invoke 'git-unpack-objects' on received data, but
+-k::
+--keep::
+ Do not invoke 'git unpack-objects' on received data, but
create a single packfile out of it instead, and store it
in the object database. If provided twice then the pack is
locked against repacking.
-\--thin::
- Spend extra cycles to minimize the number of objects to be sent.
- Use it on slower connection.
+--thin::
+ Fetch a "thin" pack, which records objects in deltified form based
+ on objects not included in the pack to reduce network traffic.
-\--upload-pack=<git-upload-pack>::
+--include-tag::
+ If the remote side supports it, annotated tags objects will
+ be downloaded on the same connection as the other objects if
+ the object the tag references is downloaded. The caller must
+ otherwise determine the tags this option made available.
+
+--upload-pack=<git-upload-pack>::
Use this to specify the path to 'git-upload-pack' on the
remote side, if is not found on your $PATH.
Installations of sshd ignores the user's environment
shells by having a lean .bashrc file (they set most of
the things up in .bash_profile).
-\--exec=<git-upload-pack>::
+--exec=<git-upload-pack>::
Same as \--upload-pack=<git-upload-pack>.
-\--depth=<n>::
+--depth=<n>::
Limit fetching to ancestor-chains not longer than n.
+ 'git-upload-pack' treats the special depth 2147483647 as
+ infinite even if there is an ancestor-chain that long.
-\--no-progress::
+--no-progress::
Do not show the progress.
-\-v::
+-v::
Run verbosely.
<host>::
$GIT_DIR (e.g. "HEAD", "refs/heads/master"). When
unspecified, update from all heads the remote side has.
-
-Author
-------
-Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
-
-Documentation
---------------
-Documentation by Junio C Hamano.
-
GIT
---
-Part of the linkgit:git[7] suite
+Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite