| <repository>:: |
| The "remote" repository to pull from. One of the |
| following notations can be used to name the repository |
| to pull from: |
| |
| Rsync URL |
| rsync://remote.machine/path/to/repo.git/ |
| |
| HTTP(s) URL |
| http://remote.machine/path/to/repo.git/ |
| |
| GIT URL |
| git://remote.machine/path/to/repo.git/ |
| remote.machine:/path/to/repo.git/ |
| |
| Local directory |
| /path/to/repo.git/ |
| |
| In addition to that, as a short-hand, the name of a file |
| in $GIT_DIR/branches directory can be specified; the |
| named file should contain a single line, a URL in one of |
| the above formats, optionally followed by a hash '#' and |
| the name of remote head. |
| |
| <head>:: |
| The remote head name to fetch from. That is, make the |
| objects reachable from the commit recorded in |
| $GIT_DIR/refs/heads/<head> in the remote repository |
| available locally. |
| |
| tag <tag>:: |
| The remote head tag to fetch from. That is, make the |
| objects reachable from the commit recorded in |
| $GIT_DIR/refs/tags/<tag> in the remote repository |
| available locally. |
| |
