6 Append ref names and object names of fetched refs to the
7 existing contents of `.git/FETCH_HEAD`. Without this
8 option old data in `.git/FETCH_HEAD` will be overwritten.
11 Limit fetching to the specified number of commits from the tip of
12 each remote branch history. If fetching to a 'shallow' repository
13 created by `git clone` with `--depth=<depth>` option (see
14 linkgit:git-clone[1]), deepen or shorten the history to the specified
15 number of commits. Tags for the deepened commits are not fetched.
18 Similar to --depth, except it specifies the number of commits
19 from the current shallow boundary instead of from the tip of
20 each remote branch history.
22 --shallow-since=<date>::
23 Deepen or shorten the history of a shallow repository to
24 include all reachable commits after <date>.
26 --shallow-exclude=<revision>::
27 Deepen or shorten the history of a shallow repository to
28 exclude commits reachable from a specified remote branch or tag.
29 This option can be specified multiple times.
32 If the source repository is complete, convert a shallow
33 repository to a complete one, removing all the limitations
34 imposed by shallow repositories.
36 If the source repository is shallow, fetch as much as possible so that
37 the current repository has the same history as the source repository.
40 By default when fetching from a shallow repository,
41 `git fetch` refuses refs that require updating
42 .git/shallow. This option updates .git/shallow and accept such
45 --negotiation-tip=<commit|glob>::
46 By default, Git will report, to the server, commits reachable
47 from all local refs to find common commits in an attempt to
48 reduce the size of the to-be-received packfile. If specified,
49 Git will only report commits reachable from the given tips.
50 This is useful to speed up fetches when the user knows which
51 local ref is likely to have commits in common with the
52 upstream ref being fetched.
54 This option may be specified more than once; if so, Git will report
55 commits reachable from any of the given commits.
57 The argument to this option may be a glob on ref names, a ref, or the (possibly
58 abbreviated) SHA-1 of a commit. Specifying a glob is equivalent to specifying
59 this option multiple times, one for each matching ref name.
61 See also the `fetch.negotiationAlgorithm` configuration variable
62 documented in linkgit:git-config[1].
66 Show what would be done, without making any changes.
71 When 'git fetch' is used with `<src>:<dst>` refspec it may
72 refuse to update the local branch as discussed
74 in the `<refspec>` part of the linkgit:git-fetch[1]
78 in the `<refspec>` part below.
80 This option overrides that check.
88 Allow several <repository> and <group> arguments to be
89 specified. No <refspec>s may be specified.
93 Before fetching, remove any remote-tracking references that no
94 longer exist on the remote. Tags are not subject to pruning
95 if they are fetched only because of the default tag
96 auto-following or due to a --tags option. However, if tags
97 are fetched due to an explicit refspec (either on the command
98 line or in the remote configuration, for example if the remote
99 was cloned with the --mirror option), then they are also
100 subject to pruning. Supplying `--prune-tags` is a shorthand for
101 providing the tag refspec.
103 See the PRUNING section below for more details.
107 Before fetching, remove any local tags that no longer exist on
108 the remote if `--prune` is enabled. This option should be used
109 more carefully, unlike `--prune` it will remove any local
110 references (local tags) that have been created. This option is
111 a shorthand for providing the explicit tag refspec along with
112 `--prune`, see the discussion about that in its documentation.
114 See the PRUNING section below for more details.
122 By default, tags that point at objects that are downloaded
123 from the remote repository are fetched and stored locally.
124 This option disables this automatic tag following. The default
125 behavior for a remote may be specified with the remote.<name>.tagOpt
126 setting. See linkgit:git-config[1].
130 When fetching refs listed on the command line, use the
131 specified refspec (can be given more than once) to map the
132 refs to remote-tracking branches, instead of the values of
133 `remote.*.fetch` configuration variables for the remote
134 repository. See section on "Configured Remote-tracking
135 Branches" for details.
139 Fetch all tags from the remote (i.e., fetch remote tags
140 `refs/tags/*` into local tags with the same name), in addition
141 to whatever else would otherwise be fetched. Using this
142 option alone does not subject tags to pruning, even if --prune
143 is used (though tags may be pruned anyway if they are also the
144 destination of an explicit refspec; see `--prune`).
146 --recurse-submodules[=yes|on-demand|no]::
147 This option controls if and under what conditions new commits of
148 populated submodules should be fetched too. It can be used as a
149 boolean option to completely disable recursion when set to 'no' or to
150 unconditionally recurse into all populated submodules when set to
151 'yes', which is the default when this option is used without any
152 value. Use 'on-demand' to only recurse into a populated submodule
153 when the superproject retrieves a commit that updates the submodule's
154 reference to a commit that isn't already in the local submodule
159 Number of parallel children to be used for fetching submodules.
160 Each will fetch from different submodules, such that fetching many
161 submodules will be faster. By default submodules will be fetched
164 --no-recurse-submodules::
165 Disable recursive fetching of submodules (this has the same effect as
166 using the `--recurse-submodules=no` option).
168 --submodule-prefix=<path>::
169 Prepend <path> to paths printed in informative messages
170 such as "Fetching submodule foo". This option is used
171 internally when recursing over submodules.
173 --recurse-submodules-default=[yes|on-demand]::
174 This option is used internally to temporarily provide a
175 non-negative default value for the --recurse-submodules
176 option. All other methods of configuring fetch's submodule
177 recursion (such as settings in linkgit:gitmodules[5] and
178 linkgit:git-config[1]) override this option, as does
179 specifying --[no-]recurse-submodules directly.
184 By default 'git fetch' refuses to update the head which
185 corresponds to the current branch. This flag disables the
186 check. This is purely for the internal use for 'git pull'
187 to communicate with 'git fetch', and unless you are
188 implementing your own Porcelain you are not supposed to
191 --upload-pack <upload-pack>::
192 When given, and the repository to fetch from is handled
193 by 'git fetch-pack', `--exec=<upload-pack>` is passed to
194 the command to specify non-default path for the command
195 run on the other end.
200 Pass --quiet to git-fetch-pack and silence any other internally
201 used git commands. Progress is not reported to the standard error
210 Progress status is reported on the standard error stream
211 by default when it is attached to a terminal, unless -q
212 is specified. This flag forces progress status even if the
213 standard error stream is not directed to a terminal.
216 --server-option=<option>::
217 Transmit the given string to the server when communicating using
218 protocol version 2. The given string must not contain a NUL or LF
219 character. The server's handling of server options, including
220 unknown ones, is server-specific.
221 When multiple `--server-option=<option>` are given, they are all
222 sent to the other side in the order listed on the command line.
226 Use IPv4 addresses only, ignoring IPv6 addresses.
230 Use IPv6 addresses only, ignoring IPv4 addresses.