git-commit-vandalism/Documentation/fetch-options.txt
Michal Ostrowski 2c620a1ad1 git-fetch: pass --upload-pack to fetch-pack
Without this, there is no way to specify a remote executable when
invoking git-pull/git-fetch as there is for git-clone.

[jc: I have a mild suspicion that this is a broken environment (aka
 sysadmin disservice).  It may be legal to configure your sshd to
 spawn named program without involving shell at all, and if your
 sysadmin does so and you have your git programs under your home
 directory, you would need something like this, but then I suspect
 you would need such workaround everywhere, not just git. But we
 have these options we can use to work around the issue, so there
 is no strong reason not to reject this patch, either. ]

Signed-off-by: Michal Ostrowski <mostrows@watson.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-01-24 23:17:26 -08:00

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-a, \--append::
Append ref names and object names of fetched refs to the
existing contents of `.git/FETCH_HEAD`. Without this
option old data in `.git/FETCH_HEAD` will be overwritten.
--upload-pack <upload-pack>::
-u <upload-pack>::
When given, and the repository to fetch from is handled
by 'git-fetch-pack', '--exec=<upload-pack>' is passed to
the command to specify non-default path for the command
run on the other end.
-f, \--force::
When `git-fetch` is used with `<rbranch>:<lbranch>`
refspec, it refuses to update the local branch
`<lbranch>` unless the remote branch `<rbranch>` it
fetches is a descendant of `<lbranch>`. This option
overrides that check.
\--no-tags::
By default, `git-fetch` fetches tags that point at
objects that are downloaded from the remote repository
and stores them locally. This option disables this
automatic tag following.
-t, \--tags::
Most of the tags are fetched automatically as branch
heads are downloaded, but tags that do not point at
objects reachable from the branch heads that are being
tracked will not be fetched by this mechanism. This
flag lets all tags and their associated objects be
downloaded.
-k, \--keep::
Keep downloaded pack.
-u, \--update-head-ok::
By default `git-fetch` refuses to update the head which
corresponds to the current branch. This flag disables the
check. Note that fetching into the current branch will not
update the index and working directory, so use it with care.