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GIT-FETCH-PACK(1)                                     Git Manual                                    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 the
       local refs/ hierarchy 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.

       --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.

       -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
           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 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>
       <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.

GIT
       Part of the git(1) suite



Git 1.8.3.1                                           03/23/2016                                    GIT-FETCH-PACK(1)