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diff --git a/Documentation/git-fetch.txt b/Documentation/git-fetch.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..b41d7c1de1 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/git-fetch.txt @@ -0,0 +1,92 @@ +git-fetch(1) +============ + +NAME +---- +git-fetch - Download objects and refs from another repository + + +SYNOPSIS +-------- +[verse] +'git fetch' [<options>] [<repository> [<refspec>...]] +'git fetch' [<options>] <group> +'git fetch' --multiple [<options>] [(<repository> | <group>)...] +'git fetch' --all [<options>] + + +DESCRIPTION +----------- +Fetches named heads or tags from one or more other repositories, +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 remote-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 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]). + +OPTIONS +------- +include::fetch-options.txt[] + +include::pull-fetch-param.txt[] + +include::urls-remotes.txt[] + + +EXAMPLES +-------- + +* 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. + +* 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. + + +BUGS +---- +Using --recurse-submodules can only fetch new commits in already checked +out submodules right now. When e.g. upstream added a new submodule in the +just fetched commits of the superproject the submodule itself can not be +fetched, making it impossible to check out that submodule later without +having to do a fetch again. This is expected to be fixed in a future git +version. + +SEE ALSO +-------- +linkgit:git-pull[1] + +GIT +--- +Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite |