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diff --git a/Documentation/git-fetch-pack.txt b/Documentation/git-fetch-pack.txt index a99a5b321f..8680f45f8d 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-fetch-pack.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-fetch-pack.txt @@ -8,17 +8,21 @@ 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>...] +[verse] +'git fetch-pack' [--all] [--quiet|-q] [--keep|-k] [--thin] [--include-tag] + [--upload-pack=<git-upload-pack>] + [--depth=<n>] [--no-progress] + [-v] <repository> [<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 +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 @@ -28,24 +32,42 @@ have a common ancestor commit. OPTIONS ------- -\--all:: +--all:: Fetch all remote refs. -\--quiet, \-q:: - Pass '-q' flag to 'git-unpack-objects'; this makes the +--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. -\--keep, \-k:: - Do not invoke 'git-unpack-objects' on received data, but +-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. +--thin:: + Fetch a "thin" pack, which records objects in deltified form based + on objects not included in the pack to reduce network traffic. -\--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 @@ -57,40 +79,36 @@ OPTIONS 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>. +--exec=<git-upload-pack>:: + Same as --upload-pack=<git-upload-pack>. -\--depth=<n>:: +--depth=<n>:: Limit fetching to ancestor-chains not longer than n. + 'git-upload-pack' treats the special depth 2147483647 as + infinite even if there is an ancestor-chain that long. -\--no-progress:: +--no-progress:: Do not show the progress. -\-v:: - Run verbosely. +--check-self-contained-and-connected:: + Output "connectivity-ok" if the received pack is + self-contained and connected. -<host>:: - A remote host that houses the repository. When this - part is specified, 'git-upload-pack' is invoked via - ssh. +-v:: + Run verbosely. -<directory>:: - The repository to sync from. +<repository>:: + The URL to the remote repository. <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. +SEE ALSO +-------- +linkgit:git-fetch[1] GIT --- -Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite +Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite |