git-fetch(1) ============ NAME ---- git-fetch - Download objects and refs from another repository SYNOPSIS -------- 'git-fetch' <options> <repository> <refspec>... DESCRIPTION ----------- Fetches named heads or tags from another repository, along with the objects necessary to complete them. 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, 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 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. OPTIONS ------- include::fetch-options.txt[] include::pull-fetch-param.txt[] include::urls.txt[] SEE ALSO -------- gitlink:git-pull[1] Author ------ Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> and Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> Documentation ------------- Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>. GIT --- Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite