SYNOPSIS
--------
-'git-fetch-pack' [-q] [-k] [--exec=<git-upload-pack>] [<host>:]<directory> [<refs>...]
+'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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-Invokes 'git-upload-pack' on a potentially remote repository,
+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
OPTIONS
-------
+--all::
+ Fetch all remote refs.
+
-q::
- Pass '-q' flag to 'git-unpack-objects'; this makes the
+--quiet::
+ Pass '-q' flag to 'git unpack-objects'; this makes the
cloning process less verbose.
-k::
- Do not invoke 'git-unpack-objects' on received data, but
+--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.
+ in the object database. If provided twice then the pack is
+ locked against repacking.
---exec=<git-upload-pack>::
+--thin::
+ 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
+ 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>::
+ Same as \--upload-pack=<git-upload-pack>.
+
+--depth=<n>::
+ Limit fetching to ancestor-chains not longer than n.
+
+--no-progress::
+ Do not show the progress.
+
+-v::
+ Run verbosely.
+
<host>::
A remote host that houses the repository. When this
part is specified, 'git-upload-pack' is invoked via
GIT
---
-Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite
+Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite