git-fetch(1) ============ NAME ---- git-fetch - Download objects and refs from another repository SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] 'git fetch' [] [ [...]] 'git fetch' [] 'git fetch' --multiple [] [( | )...] 'git fetch' --all [] DESCRIPTION ----------- Fetch branches and/or tags (collectively, "refs") from one or more other repositories, along with the objects necessary to complete their histories. The names of refs that are fetched, together with the object names they point at, are written to `.git/FETCH_HEAD`. This information can be used to learn what was fetched. In addition, the remote-tracking branches are updated (see description on below for details). By default, any tag that points into the histories being fetched is also fetched; the effect is to fetch tags that point at branches that you are interested in. This default behavior can be changed by using the --tags or --no-tags options or by configuring remote..tagopt. By using a refspec that fetches tags explicitly, you can fetch tags that do not point into branches you are interested in as well. 'git fetch' can fetch from either a single named repository, or from several repositories at once if is given and there is a remotes. entry in the configuration file. (See linkgit:git-config[1]). When no remote is specified, by default the `origin` remote will be used, unless there's an upstream branch configured for the current branch. OPTIONS ------- include::fetch-options.txt[] include::pull-fetch-param.txt[] include::urls-remotes.txt[] EXAMPLES -------- * Update the remote-tracking branches: + ------------------------------------------------ $ git fetch origin ------------------------------------------------ + The above command copies all branches from the remote refs/heads/ namespace and stores them to the local refs/remotes/origin/ namespace, unless the branch..fetch option is used to specify a non-default refspec. * Using refspecs explicitly: + ------------------------------------------------ $ git fetch origin +pu:pu maint:tmp ------------------------------------------------ + This updates (or creates, as necessary) branches `pu` and `tmp` in the local repository by fetching from the branches (respectively) `pu` and `maint` from the remote repository. + The `pu` branch will be updated even if it is does not fast-forward, because it is prefixed with a plus sign; `tmp` will not be. BUGS ---- Using --recurse-submodules can only fetch new commits in already checked out submodules right now. When e.g. upstream added a new submodule in the just fetched commits of the superproject the submodule itself can not be fetched, making it impossible to check out that submodule later without having to do a fetch again. This is expected to be fixed in a future Git version. SEE ALSO -------- linkgit:git-pull[1] GIT --- Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite