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diff --git a/Documentation/git-fetch.txt b/Documentation/git-fetch.txt index 400fe7f956..b41d7c1de1 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-fetch.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-fetch.txt @@ -8,12 +8,10 @@ git-fetch - Download objects and refs from another repository SYNOPSIS -------- +[verse] 'git fetch' [<options>] [<repository> [<refspec>...]] - 'git fetch' [<options>] <group> - -'git fetch' --multiple [<options>] [<repository> | <group>]... - +'git fetch' --multiple [<options>] [(<repository> | <group>)...] 'git fetch' --all [<options>] @@ -26,7 +24,7 @@ The ref names and their object names of fetched refs are stored in `.git/FETCH_HEAD`. This information is left for a later merge operation done by 'git merge'. -When <refspec> stores the fetched result in tracking branches, +When <refspec> stores the fetched result in remote-tracking branches, the tags that point at these branches are automatically followed. This is done by first fetching from the remote using the given <refspec>s, and if the repository has objects that are @@ -34,7 +32,7 @@ pointed by remote tags that it does not yet have, then fetch those missing tags. If the other end has tags that point at branches you are not interested in, you will not get them. -'git fetch' can fetch from either a single named repository, or +'git fetch' can fetch from either a single named repository, or from several repositories at once if <group> is given and there is a remotes.<group> entry in the configuration file. (See linkgit:git-config[1]). @@ -76,20 +74,19 @@ The `pu` branch will be updated even if it is does not fast-forward, because it is prefixed with a plus sign; `tmp` will not be. +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 +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. + SEE ALSO -------- linkgit:git-pull[1] - -Author ------- -Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> and -Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> - -Documentation -------------- -Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>. - GIT --- Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite |