| 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-remotes.txt[] | |
| SEE ALSO | |
| -------- | |
| linkgit:git-pull[1] | |
| Author | |
| ------ | |
| Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> and | |
| Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | |
| Documentation | |
| ------------- | |
| Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>. | |
| GIT | |
| --- | |
| Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite |