GIT-FETCH-PACK(1)                                                   Git Manual                                                   GIT-FETCH-PACK(1)

NAME

       git-fetch-pack - Receive missing objects from another repository

SYNOPSIS

       git fetch-pack [--all] [--quiet|-q] [--keep|-k] [--thin] [--include-tag]
               [--upload-pack=<git-upload-pack>]
               [--depth=<n>] [--no-progress]
               [-v] <repository> [<refs>...]

DESCRIPTION

       Usually you would want to use git fetch, which is a higher level wrapper of this command, instead.

       Invokes git-upload-pack on a possibly remote repository and asks it to send objects missing from this repository, to update the named
       heads. The list of commits available locally is found out by scanning the local refs/ hierarchy and sent to git-upload-pack running on the
       other end.

       This command degenerates to download everything to complete the asked refs from the remote side when the local side does not have a common
       ancestor commit.

OPTIONS

       --all
           Fetch all remote refs.

       --stdin
           Take the list of refs from stdin, one per line. If there are refs specified on the command line in addition to this option, then the
           refs from stdin are processed after those on the command line.

           If --stateless-rpc is specified together with this option then the list of refs must be in packet format (pkt-line). Each ref must be
           in a separate packet, and the list must end with a flush packet.

       -q, --quiet
           Pass -q flag to git unpack-objects; this makes the cloning process less verbose.

       -k, --keep
           Do not invoke git unpack-objects on received data, but create a single packfile out of it instead, and store it in the object database.
           If provided twice then the pack is locked against repacking.

       --thin
           Fetch a "thin" pack, which records objects in deltified form based on objects not included in the pack to reduce network traffic.

       --include-tag
           If the remote side supports it, annotated tags objects will be downloaded on the same connection as the other objects if the object the
           tag references is downloaded. The caller must otherwise determine the tags this option made available.

       --upload-pack=<git-upload-pack>
           Use this to specify the path to git-upload-pack on the remote side, if is not found on your $PATH. Installations of sshd ignores the
           user's environment setup scripts for login shells (e.g. .bash_profile) and your privately installed git may not be found on the system
           default $PATH. Another workaround suggested is to set up your $PATH in ".bashrc", but this flag is for people who do not want to pay
           the overhead for non-interactive shells by having a lean .bashrc file (they set most of the things up in .bash_profile).

       --exec=<git-upload-pack>
           Same as --upload-pack=<git-upload-pack>.

       --depth=<n>
           Limit fetching to ancestor-chains not longer than n.  git-upload-pack treats the special depth 2147483647 as infinite even if there is
           an ancestor-chain that long.

       --shallow-since=<date>
           Deepen or shorten the history of a shallow'repository to include all reachable commits after <date>.

       --shallow-exclude=<revision>
           Deepen or shorten the history of a shallow repository to exclude commits reachable from a specified remote branch or tag. This option
           can be specified multiple times.

       --deepen-relative
           Argument --depth specifies the number of commits from the current shallow boundary instead of from the tip of each remote branch
           history.

       --no-progress
           Do not show the progress.

       --check-self-contained-and-connected
           Output "connectivity-ok" if the received pack is self-contained and connected.

       -v
           Run verbosely.

       <repository>
           The URL to the remote repository.

       <refs>...
           The remote heads to update from. This is relative to $GIT_DIR (e.g. "HEAD", "refs/heads/master"). When unspecified, update from all
           heads the remote side has.

           If the remote has enabled the options uploadpack.allowTipSHA1InWant, uploadpack.allowReachableSHA1InWant, or
           uploadpack.allowAnySHA1InWant, they may alternatively be 40-hex sha1s present on the remote.

SEE ALSO

       git-fetch(1)

GIT

       Part of the git(1) suite

Git 2.17.1                                                          10/05/2018                                                   GIT-FETCH-PACK(1)