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6 git-fetch-pack - Receive missing objects from another repository
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9 git fetch-pack [--all] [--quiet|-q] [--keep|-k] [--thin]
10 [--include-tag] [--upload-pack=<git-upload-pack>] [--depth=<n>]
11 [--no-progress] [-v] [<host>:]<directory> [<refs>...]
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14 Usually you would want to use git fetch, which is a higher level
15 wrapper of this command, instead.
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17 Invokes git-upload-pack on a possibly remote repository and asks it to
18 send objects missing from this repository, to update the named heads.
19 The list of commits available locally is found out by scanning the
20 local refs/ hierarchy and sent to git-upload-pack running on the other
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23 This command degenerates to download everything to complete the asked
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32 Pass -q flag to git unpack-objects; this makes the cloning process
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36 Do not invoke git unpack-objects on received data, but create a
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42 Fetch a "thin" pack, which records objects in deltified form based
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46 If the remote side supports it, annotated tags objects will be
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48 object the tag references is downloaded. The caller must otherwise
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52 Use this to specify the path to git-upload-pack on the remote side,
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54 user’s environment setup scripts for login shells (e.g.
55 .bash_profile) and your privately installed git may not be found on
56 the system default $PATH. Another workaround suggested is to set up
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75 A remote host that houses the repository. When this part is
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82 The remote heads to update from. This is relative to $GIT_DIR (e.g.
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87 Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org[1]>
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90 Documentation by Junio C Hamano.
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93 Part of the git(1) suite
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