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NAME top

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

SYNOPSIS top

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

DESCRIPTION top

   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 top

   --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 it 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=<ref>
       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.

   --refetch
       Skips negotiating commits with the server in order to fetch
       all matching objects. Use to reapply a new partial clone
       blob/tree filter.

   --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 top

   [git-fetch(1)](../man1/git-fetch.1.html)

GIT top

   Part of the [git(1)](../man1/git.1.html) suite

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