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NAME
       git-fetch-pack - Receive missing objects from another repository

SYNOPSIS
       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.

           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 is not found on
           your $PATH. Installations of sshd ignores the user’s environment 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 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.

       --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.

           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
       git-fetch(1)

GIT
       Part of the git(1) suite



Git 2.34.1                                   02/26/2026                            GIT-FETCH-PACK(1)