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diff --git a/Documentation/git-fetch.txt b/Documentation/git-fetch.txt index e319935597..9067c2079e 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-fetch.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-fetch.txt @@ -48,6 +48,10 @@ include::fetch-options.txt[] include::pull-fetch-param.txt[] +--stdin:: + Read refspecs, one per line, from stdin in addition to those provided + as arguments. The "tag <name>" format is not supported. + include::urls-remotes.txt[] @@ -255,18 +259,18 @@ refspec. * Using refspecs explicitly: + ------------------------------------------------ -$ git fetch origin +pu:pu maint:tmp +$ git fetch origin +seen:seen maint:tmp ------------------------------------------------ + -This updates (or creates, as necessary) branches `pu` and `tmp` in +This updates (or creates, as necessary) branches `seen` and `tmp` in the local repository by fetching from the branches (respectively) -`pu` and `maint` from the remote repository. +`seen` and `maint` from the remote repository. + -The `pu` branch will be updated even if it is does not fast-forward, +The `seen` branch will be updated even if it does not fast-forward, because it is prefixed with a plus sign; `tmp` will not be. * Peek at a remote's branch, without configuring the remote in your local -repository: + repository: + ------------------------------------------------ $ git fetch git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git maint @@ -285,7 +289,7 @@ BUGS ---- Using --recurse-submodules can only fetch new commits in already checked out submodules right now. When e.g. upstream added a new submodule in the -just fetched commits of the superproject the submodule itself can not be +just fetched commits of the superproject the submodule itself cannot be fetched, making it impossible to check out that submodule later without having to do a fetch again. This is expected to be fixed in a future Git version. |