NAME
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-git-fetch-pack - Receive missing objects from another repository.
+git-fetch-pack - Receive missing objects from another repository
SYNOPSIS
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-git-fetch-pack [-q] [-k] [--exec=<git-upload-pack>] [<host>:]<directory> [<refs>...]
+'git-fetch-pack' [-q] [-k] [--exec=<git-upload-pack>] [<host>:]<directory> [<refs>...]
DESCRIPTION
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+Usually you would want to use gitlink:git-fetch[1] which is a
+higher level wrapper of this command instead.
+
Invokes 'git-upload-pack' on a potentially remote repository,
and asks it to send objects missing from this repository, to
update the named heads. The list of commits available locally
-k::
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>::
Use this to specify the path to 'git-upload-pack' on the