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    git-fetch-pack(1)
    =================
    
    NAME
    ----
    git-fetch-pack - Receive missing objects from another repository
    
    
    SYNOPSIS
    --------
    [verse]
    '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' running on the other end.
    
    This command degenerates to download everything to complete the
    asked refs from the remote side when the local side does not
    have a common ancestor commit.
    
    
    OPTIONS
    -------
    --all::
    	Fetch all remote refs.
    
    --stdin::
    	Take the list of refs from stdin, one per line. If there
    	are refs specified on the command line in addition to this
    	option, then the refs from stdin are processed after those
    	on the command line.
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    If `--stateless-rpc` is specified together with this option then
    the list of refs must be in packet format (pkt-line). Each ref must
    be in a separate packet, and the list must end with a flush packet.
    
    -q::
    --quiet::
    	Pass `-q` flag to 'git unpack-objects'; this makes the
    	cloning process less verbose.
    
    -k::
    --keep::
    	Do not invoke 'git unpack-objects' on received data, but
    	create a single packfile out of it instead, and store it
    	in the object database. If provided twice then the pack is
    	locked against repacking.
    
    --thin::
    	Fetch a "thin" pack, which records objects in deltified form based
    	on objects not included in the pack to reduce network traffic.
    
    --include-tag::
    	If the remote side supports it, annotated tags objects will
    	be downloaded on the same connection as the other objects if
    	the object the tag references is downloaded.  The caller must
    	otherwise determine the tags this option made available.
    
    --upload-pack=<git-upload-pack>::
    	Use this to specify the path to 'git-upload-pack' on the
    
    	remote side, if it is not found on your $PATH.
    
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    	setup scripts for login shells (e.g. .bash_profile) and
    	your privately installed git may not be found on the system
    	default $PATH.  Another workaround suggested is to set
    	up your $PATH in ".bashrc", but this flag is for people
    	who do not want to pay the overhead for non-interactive
    	shells by having a lean .bashrc file (they set most of
    	the things up in .bash_profile).
    
    --exec=<git-upload-pack>::
    	Same as --upload-pack=<git-upload-pack>.
    
    --depth=<n>::
    	Limit fetching to ancestor-chains not longer than n.
    	'git-upload-pack' treats the special depth 2147483647 as
    	infinite even if there is an ancestor-chain that long.
    
    --shallow-since=<date>::
    
    	Deepen or shorten the history of a shallow repository to
    
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    	include all reachable commits after <date>.
    
    --shallow-exclude=<revision>::
    	Deepen or shorten the history of a shallow repository to
    	exclude commits reachable from a specified remote branch or tag.
    	This option can be specified multiple times.
    
    --deepen-relative::
    	Argument --depth specifies the number of commits from the
    	current shallow boundary instead of from the tip of each
    	remote branch history.
    
    
    --refetch::
    	Skips negotiating commits with the server in order to fetch all matching
    	objects. Use to reapply a new partial clone blob/tree filter.
    
    
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    --no-progress::
    	Do not show the progress.
    
    --check-self-contained-and-connected::
    	Output "connectivity-ok" if the received pack is
    	self-contained and connected.
    
    -v::
    	Run verbosely.
    
    <repository>::
    	The URL to the remote repository.
    
    <refs>...::
    	The remote heads to update from. This is relative to
    	$GIT_DIR (e.g. "HEAD", "refs/heads/master").  When
    	unspecified, update from all heads the remote side has.
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    If the remote has enabled the options `uploadpack.allowTipSHA1InWant`,
    `uploadpack.allowReachableSHA1InWant`, or `uploadpack.allowAnySHA1InWant`,
    they may alternatively be 40-hex sha1s present on the remote.
    
    SEE ALSO
    --------
    linkgit:git-fetch[1]
    
    GIT
    ---
    Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite