SYNOPSIS
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+[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
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-Usually you would want to use 'git-fetch', which is a
+Usually you would want to use 'git fetch', which is a
higher level wrapper of this command, instead.
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
-q::
--quiet::
- Pass '-q' flag to 'git-unpack-objects'; this makes the
+ Pass '-q' flag to 'git unpack-objects'; this makes the
cloning process less verbose.
-k::
--keep::
- Do not invoke 'git-unpack-objects' on received data, but
+ 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.
+ Fetch a "thin" pack, which records objects in deltified form based
+ on objects not included in the pack to reduce network traffic.
--include-tag::
If the remote side supports it, annotated tags objects will
$GIT_DIR (e.g. "HEAD", "refs/heads/master"). When
unspecified, update from all heads the remote side has.
-
-Author
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-Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
-
-Documentation
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-Documentation by Junio C Hamano.
-
GIT
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Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite