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| author |  Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2011-11-10 09:10:51 -0800 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2011-11-10 09:10:51 -0800 |
| commit | c444c16589f95ac22d8e3ffe603cd7f0613512ce (patch) | |
| tree | 31d2e0c2a77344201af6f3ee5427f47218dec9bb /Documentation/git-fetch-pack.txt | |
| parent | Merge 'build-in git-mktree' (diff) | |
| parent | Move 'builtin-*' into a 'builtin/' subdirectory (diff) | |
| download | tgif-c444c16589f95ac22d8e3ffe603cd7f0613512ce.tar.xz | |
Merge "Move 'builtin-*' into a 'builtin/' subdirectory"
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diff --git a/Documentation/git-fetch-pack.txt b/Documentation/git-fetch-pack.txt index 47448da22e..4a8487c154 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-fetch-pack.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-fetch-pack.txt @@ -12,13 +12,13 @@ SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION ----------- -Usually you would want to use 'git-fetch', which is a +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 @@ -33,19 +33,19 @@ OPTIONS -q:: --quiet:: - Pass '-q' flag to 'git-unpack-objects'; this makes the + 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 + 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. + 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 |