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