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authorLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2010-01-30 16:03:10 -0800
committerLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2010-01-30 16:03:10 -0800
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parentt6000lib: Fix permission (diff)
parentAdd a small patch-mode testing library (diff)
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Merge commit 'b319ef7' into jc/maint-fix-test-perm
* commit 'b319ef7': (8132 commits) Add a small patch-mode testing library git-apply--interactive: Refactor patch mode code t8005: Nobody writes Russian in shift_jis Fix severe breakage in "git-apply --whitespace=fix" Update release notes for 1.6.4 After renaming a section, print any trailing variable definitions Make section_name_match start on '[', and return the length on success send-email: detect cycles in alias expansion Show the presence of untracked files in the bash prompt. SunOS grep does not understand -C<n> nor -e Fix export_marks() error handling. git repack: keep commits hidden by a graft Add a test showing that 'git repack' throws away grafted-away parents git branch: clean up detached branch handling git branch: avoid unnecessary object lookups git branch: fix performance problem git svn: fix shallow clone when upstream revision is too new do_one_ref(): null_sha1 check is not about broken ref configure.ac: properly unset NEEDS_SSL_WITH_CRYPTO when sha1 func is missing janitor: useless checks before free ...
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diff --git a/Documentation/git-fetch-pack.txt b/Documentation/git-fetch-pack.txt
index a99a5b321f..47448da22e 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-fetch-pack.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-fetch-pack.txt
@@ -8,14 +8,14 @@ git-fetch-pack - Receive missing objects from another repository
SYNOPSIS
--------
-'git-fetch-pack' [--all] [--quiet|-q] [--keep|-k] [--thin] [--upload-pack=<git-upload-pack>] [--depth=<n>] [--no-progress] [-v] [<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
-----------
-Usually you would want to use gitlink:git-fetch[1] which is a
-higher level wrapper of this command instead.
+Usually you would want to use 'git-fetch', which is a
+higher level wrapper of this command, instead.
-Invokes 'git-upload-pack' on a potentially remote repository,
+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
@@ -28,24 +28,32 @@ have a common ancestor commit.
OPTIONS
-------
-\--all::
+--all::
Fetch all remote refs.
-\--quiet, \-q::
+-q::
+--quiet::
Pass '-q' flag to 'git-unpack-objects'; this makes the
cloning process less verbose.
-\--keep, \-k::
+-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::
+--thin::
Spend extra cycles to minimize the number of objects to be sent.
Use it on slower connection.
-\--upload-pack=<git-upload-pack>::
+--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
@@ -57,16 +65,16 @@ OPTIONS
shells by having a lean .bashrc file (they set most of
the things up in .bash_profile).
-\--exec=<git-upload-pack>::
+--exec=<git-upload-pack>::
Same as \--upload-pack=<git-upload-pack>.
-\--depth=<n>::
+--depth=<n>::
Limit fetching to ancestor-chains not longer than n.
-\--no-progress::
+--no-progress::
Do not show the progress.
-\-v::
+-v::
Run verbosely.
<host>::
@@ -93,4 +101,4 @@ Documentation by Junio C Hamano.
GIT
---
-Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite
+Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite