GIT-FETCH-PACK(1)

NAME
git-fetch-pack - Receive missing objects from another repository

SYNOPSIS
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 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 git-upload-pack running on the other end. This command degenerates to download everything to complete the asked refs from the remote side when the local side does not have a common ancestor commit.

OPTIONS

--all
    Fetch all remote refs.

-q, --quiet
    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 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.

--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 setup scripts for login shells (e.g. .bash_profile) and your privately installed git may not be found on the system default $PATH. Another workaround suggested is to set up your $PATH in ".bashrc", but this flag is for people who do not want to pay the overhead for non-interactive 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 ssh.

<directory>
    The repository to sync from.

<refs>...
    The remote heads to update from. This is relative to $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 git(1) suite