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 Deepen or shorten the history of a 'shallow' repository created by
12 `git clone` with `--depth=<depth>` option (see linkgit:git-clone[1])
13 to the specified number of commits from the tip of each remote
14 branch history. Tags for the deepened commits are not fetched.
17 If the source repository is complete, convert a shallow
18 repository to a complete one, removing all the limitations
19 imposed by shallow repositories.
21 If the source repository is shallow, fetch as much as possible so that
22 the current repository has the same history as the source repository.
25 By default when fetching from a shallow repository,
26 `git fetch` refuses refs that require updating
27 .git/shallow. This option updates .git/shallow and accept such
32 Show what would be done, without making any changes.
37 When 'git fetch' is used with `<rbranch>:<lbranch>`
38 refspec, it refuses to update the local branch
39 `<lbranch>` unless the remote branch `<rbranch>` it
40 fetches is a descendant of `<lbranch>`. This option
49 Allow several <repository> and <group> arguments to be
50 specified. No <refspec>s may be specified.
54 After fetching, remove any remote-tracking references that no
55 longer exist on the remote. Tags are not subject to pruning
56 if they are fetched only because of the default tag
57 auto-following or due to a --tags option. However, if tags
58 are fetched due to an explicit refspec (either on the command
59 line or in the remote configuration, for example if the remote
60 was cloned with the --mirror option), then they are also
68 By default, tags that point at objects that are downloaded
69 from the remote repository are fetched and stored locally.
70 This option disables this automatic tag following. The default
71 behavior for a remote may be specified with the remote.<name>.tagopt
72 setting. See linkgit:git-config[1].
77 Fetch all tags from the remote (i.e., fetch remote tags
78 `refs/tags/*` into local tags with the same name), in addition
79 to whatever else would otherwise be fetched. Using this
80 option alone does not subject tags to pruning, even if --prune
81 is used (though tags may be pruned anyway if they are also the
82 destination of an explicit refspec; see '--prune').
84 --recurse-submodules[=yes|on-demand|no]::
85 This option controls if and under what conditions new commits of
86 populated submodules should be fetched too. It can be used as a
87 boolean option to completely disable recursion when set to 'no' or to
88 unconditionally recurse into all populated submodules when set to
89 'yes', which is the default when this option is used without any
90 value. Use 'on-demand' to only recurse into a populated submodule
91 when the superproject retrieves a commit that updates the submodule's
92 reference to a commit that isn't already in the local submodule
95 --no-recurse-submodules::
96 Disable recursive fetching of submodules (this has the same effect as
97 using the '--recurse-submodules=no' option).
99 --submodule-prefix=<path>::
100 Prepend <path> to paths printed in informative messages
101 such as "Fetching submodule foo". This option is used
102 internally when recursing over submodules.
104 --recurse-submodules-default=[yes|on-demand]::
105 This option is used internally to temporarily provide a
106 non-negative default value for the --recurse-submodules
107 option. All other methods of configuring fetch's submodule
108 recursion (such as settings in linkgit:gitmodules[5] and
109 linkgit:git-config[1]) override this option, as does
110 specifying --[no-]recurse-submodules directly.
115 By default 'git fetch' refuses to update the head which
116 corresponds to the current branch. This flag disables the
117 check. This is purely for the internal use for 'git pull'
118 to communicate with 'git fetch', and unless you are
119 implementing your own Porcelain you are not supposed to
122 --upload-pack <upload-pack>::
123 When given, and the repository to fetch from is handled
124 by 'git fetch-pack', '--exec=<upload-pack>' is passed to
125 the command to specify non-default path for the command
126 run on the other end.
131 Pass --quiet to git-fetch-pack and silence any other internally
132 used git commands. Progress is not reported to the standard error
141 Progress status is reported on the standard error stream
142 by default when it is attached to a terminal, unless -q
143 is specified. This flag forces progress status even if the
144 standard error stream is not directed to a terminal.