2 Pass --quiet to git-fetch-pack and silence any other internally
9 Append ref names and object names of fetched refs to the
10 existing contents of `.git/FETCH_HEAD`. Without this
11 option old data in `.git/FETCH_HEAD` will be overwritten.
13 \--upload-pack <upload-pack>::
14 When given, and the repository to fetch from is handled
15 by 'git-fetch-pack', '--exec=<upload-pack>' is passed to
16 the command to specify non-default path for the command
20 When `git-fetch` is used with `<rbranch>:<lbranch>`
21 refspec, it refuses to update the local branch
22 `<lbranch>` unless the remote branch `<rbranch>` it
23 fetches is a descendant of `<lbranch>`. This option
27 By default, `git-fetch` fetches tags that point at
28 objects that are downloaded from the remote repository
29 and stores them locally. This option disables this
30 automatic tag following.
33 Most of the tags are fetched automatically as branch
34 heads are downloaded, but tags that do not point at
35 objects reachable from the branch heads that are being
36 tracked will not be fetched by this mechanism. This
37 flag lets all tags and their associated objects be
43 -u, \--update-head-ok::
44 By default `git-fetch` refuses to update the head which
45 corresponds to the current branch. This flag disables the
46 check. This is purely for the internal use for `git-pull`
47 to communicate with `git-fetch`, and unless you are
48 implementing your own Porcelain you are not supposed to
52 Deepen the history of a 'shallow' repository created by
53 `git clone` with `--depth=<depth>` option (see gitlink:git-clone[1])
54 by the specified number of commits.