| git-fetch(1) |
| ============ |
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| NAME |
| ---- |
| git-fetch - Download objects and refs from another repository |
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| SYNOPSIS |
| -------- |
| 'git fetch' [<options>] [<repository> [<refspec>...]] |
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| 'git fetch' [<options>] <group> |
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| 'git fetch' --multiple [<options>] [(<repository> | <group>)...] |
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| 'git fetch' --all [<options>] |
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| DESCRIPTION |
| ----------- |
| Fetches named heads or tags from one or more other repositories, |
| along with the objects necessary to complete them. |
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| 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'. |
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| 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. |
| |
| 'git fetch' can fetch from either a single named repository, or |
| or from several repositories at once if <group> is given and |
| there is a remotes.<group> entry in the configuration file. |
| (See linkgit:git-config[1]). |
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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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| EXAMPLES |
| -------- |
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| * Update the remote-tracking branches: |
| + |
| ------------------------------------------------ |
| $ git fetch origin |
| ------------------------------------------------ |
| + |
| The above command copies all branches from the remote refs/heads/ |
| namespace and stores them to the local refs/remotes/origin/ namespace, |
| unless the branch.<name>.fetch option is used to specify a non-default |
| refspec. |
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| * Using refspecs explicitly: |
| + |
| ------------------------------------------------ |
| $ git fetch origin +pu:pu maint:tmp |
| ------------------------------------------------ |
| + |
| This updates (or creates, as necessary) branches `pu` and `tmp` in |
| the local repository by fetching from the branches (respectively) |
| `pu` and `maint` from the remote repository. |
| + |
| The `pu` branch will be updated even if it is does not fast-forward, |
| because it is prefixed with a plus sign; `tmp` will not be. |
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| SEE ALSO |
| -------- |
| linkgit:git-pull[1] |
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| Author |
| ------ |
| Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> and |
| Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> |
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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 linkgit:git[1] suite |
