4 Pass --quiet to git-fetch-pack and silence any other internally
14 Append ref names and object names of fetched refs to the
15 existing contents of `.git/FETCH_HEAD`. Without this
16 option old data in `.git/FETCH_HEAD` will be overwritten.
18 --upload-pack <upload-pack>::
19 When given, and the repository to fetch from is handled
20 by 'git-fetch-pack', '--exec=<upload-pack>' is passed to
21 the command to specify non-default path for the command
26 When 'git-fetch' is used with `<rbranch>:<lbranch>`
27 refspec, it refuses to update the local branch
28 `<lbranch>` unless the remote branch `<rbranch>` it
29 fetches is a descendant of `<lbranch>`. This option
39 By default, tags that point at objects that are downloaded
40 from the remote repository are fetched and stored locally.
41 This option disables this automatic tag following.
45 Most of the tags are fetched automatically as branch
46 heads are downloaded, but tags that do not point at
47 objects reachable from the branch heads that are being
48 tracked will not be fetched by this mechanism. This
49 flag lets all tags and their associated objects be
58 By default 'git-fetch' refuses to update the head which
59 corresponds to the current branch. This flag disables the
60 check. This is purely for the internal use for 'git-pull'
61 to communicate with 'git-fetch', and unless you are
62 implementing your own Porcelain you are not supposed to
66 Deepen the history of a 'shallow' repository created by
67 `git clone` with `--depth=<depth>` option (see linkgit:git-clone[1])
68 by the specified number of commits.