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This is a beginning of resurrecting the multi-head pulling support for git-fetch-pack command. The git-fetch-script wrapper still only knows about fetching a single head, without renaming, so it is not very useful unless you directly call git-fetch-pack itself yet. It also fixes a longstanding obsolete description of how the command discovers the list of local commits.
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git-fetch-pack(1)
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v0.1, July 2005
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NAME
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----
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git-fetch-pack - Receive missing objects from another repository.
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SYNOPSIS
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--------
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git-fetch-pack [-q] [--exec=<git-upload-pack>] [<host>:]<directory> [<refs>...]
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DESCRIPTION
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-----------
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Invokes 'git-upload-pack' on a potentially remote repository,
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and asks it to send objects missing from this repository, to
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update the named heads. The list of commits available locally
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is found out by scanning local $GIT_DIR/refs/ and sent to
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'git-upload-pack' running on the other end.
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This command degenerates to download everything to complete the
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asked refs from the remote side when the local side does not
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have a common ancestor commit.
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OPTIONS
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-------
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-q::
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Pass '-q' flag to 'git-unpack-objects'; this makes the
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cloning process less verbose.
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--exec=<git-upload-pack>::
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Use this to specify the path to 'git-upload-pack' on the
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remote side, if is not found on your $PATH.
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Installations of sshd ignores the user's environment
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setup scripts for login shells (e.g. .bash_profile) and
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your privately installed GIT may not be found on the system
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default $PATH. Another workaround suggested is to set
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up your $PATH in ".bashrc", but this flag is for people
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who do not want to pay the overhead for non-interactive
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shells by having a lean .bashrc file (they set most of
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the things up in .bash_profile).
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<host>::
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A remote host that houses the repository. When this
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part is specified, 'git-upload-pack' is invoked via
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ssh.
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<directory>::
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The repository to sync from.
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<refs>...::
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The remote heads to update from. This is relative to
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$GIT_DIR (e.g. "HEAD", "refs/heads/master"). When
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unspecified, update from all heads the remote side has.
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Author
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------
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Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Documentation
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Documentation by Junio C Hamano.
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GIT
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Part of the link:git.html[git] suite
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