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diff --git a/Documentation/git-fetch.txt b/Documentation/git-fetch.txt index 78fe9489e6..06106b9b0c 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-fetch.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-fetch.txt @@ -18,13 +18,9 @@ SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION ----------- Fetch branches and/or tags (collectively, "refs") from one or more -other repositories, along with the objects necessary to complete -their histories. - -The names of refs that are fetched, together with the object names -they point at, are written to `.git/FETCH_HEAD`. This information -can be used to learn what was fetched. In addition, the remote-tracking -branches are updated (see description on <refspec> below for details). +other repositories, along with the objects necessary to complete their +histories. Remote-tracking branches are updated (see the description +of <refspec> below for ways to control this behavior). By default, any tag that points into the histories being fetched is also fetched; the effect is to fetch tags that @@ -34,7 +30,7 @@ configuring remote.<name>.tagopt. By using a refspec that fetches tags explicitly, you can fetch tags that do not point into branches you are interested in as well. -'git fetch' can fetch from either a single named repository, +'git fetch' can fetch from either a single named repository or URL, 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]). @@ -42,6 +38,10 @@ there is a remotes.<group> entry in the configuration file. When no remote is specified, by default the `origin` remote will be used, unless there's an upstream branch configured for the current branch. +The names of refs that are fetched, together with the object names +they point at, are written to `.git/FETCH_HEAD`. This information +may be used by scripts or other git commands, such as linkgit:git-pull[1]. + OPTIONS ------- include::fetch-options.txt[] @@ -78,6 +78,19 @@ the local repository by fetching from the branches (respectively) 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. +* Peek at a remote's branch, without configuring the remote in your local +repository: ++ +------------------------------------------------ +$ git fetch git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git maint +$ git log FETCH_HEAD +------------------------------------------------ ++ +The first command fetches the `maint` branch from the repository at +`git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git` and the second command uses +`FETCH_HEAD` to examine the branch with linkgit:git-log[1]. The fetched +objects will eventually be removed by git's built-in housekeeping (see +linkgit:git-gc[1]). BUGS ---- |