git fetch-pack
git-fetch-pack
Name
git-fetch-pack - Receive missing objects from another repository
Synopsis
git fetch-pack [--all] [--quiet|-q] [--keep|-k] [--thin] [--include-tag] [--upload-pack=<git-upload-pack>] [--depth=<n>] [--no-progress] [-v] <repository> [<refs>…]
Description
Usually you would want to use git fetch
, which is a higher level wrapper of this command, instead.
Invokes git-upload-pack
on a possibly remote repository and asks it to send objects missing from this repository, to update the named heads. The list of commits available locally is found out by scanning the local refs/ hierarchy and sent to git-upload-pack
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