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diff --git a/Documentation/git-http-fetch.txt b/Documentation/git-http-fetch.txt index 21a33d2c41..9fa17b60e4 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-http-fetch.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-http-fetch.txt @@ -9,14 +9,15 @@ git-http-fetch - Download from a remote Git repository via HTTP SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] -'git http-fetch' [-c] [-t] [-a] [-d] [-v] [-w filename] [--recover] [--stdin] <commit> <url> +'git http-fetch' [-c] [-t] [-a] [-d] [-v] [-w filename] [--recover] [--stdin | --packfile=<hash> | <commit>] <url> DESCRIPTION ----------- Downloads a remote Git repository via HTTP. -*NOTE*: use of this command without -a is deprecated. The -a -behaviour will become the default in a future release. +This command always gets all objects. Historically, there were three options +`-a`, `-c` and `-t` for choosing which objects to download. They are now +silently ignored. OPTIONS ------- @@ -24,12 +25,8 @@ commit-id:: Either the hash or the filename under [URL]/refs/ to pull. --c:: - Get the commit objects. --t:: - Get trees associated with the commit objects. --a:: - Get all the objects. +-a, -c, -t:: + These options are ignored for historical reasons. -v:: Report what is downloaded. @@ -43,6 +40,19 @@ commit-id:: <commit-id>['\t'<filename-as-in--w>] +--packfile=<hash>:: + For internal use only. Instead of a commit id on the command + line (which is not expected in + this case), 'git http-fetch' fetches the packfile directly at the given + URL and uses index-pack to generate corresponding .idx and .keep files. + The hash is used to determine the name of the temporary file and is + arbitrary. The output of index-pack is printed to stdout. Requires + --index-pack-args. + +--index-pack-args=<args>:: + For internal use only. The command to run on the contents of the + downloaded pack. Arguments are URL-encoded separated by spaces. + --recover:: Verify that everything reachable from target is fetched. Used after an earlier fetch is interrupted. |