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259 <title>git-fetch(1)</title>
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264 git-fetch(1) Manual Page
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267 <div class="sectionbody">
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269 Download objects and a head from another repository.
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274 <div class="sectionbody">
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275 <p><em>git-fetch</em> <options> <repository> <refspec>…</p>
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277 <h2>DESCRIPTION</h2>
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278 <div class="sectionbody">
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279 <p>Fetches named heads or tags from another repository, along with
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280 the objects necessary to complete them.</p>
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281 <p>The ref names and their object names of fetched refs are stored
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282 in <tt>.git/FETCH_HEAD</tt>. This information is left for a later merge
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283 operation done by "git merge".</p>
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286 <div class="sectionbody">
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293 Append ref names and object names of fetched refs to the
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294 existing contents of <tt>.git/FETCH_HEAD</tt>. Without this
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295 option old data in <tt>.git/FETCH_HEAD</tt> will be overwritten.
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299 --upload-pack <upload-pack>
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303 When given, and the repository to fetch from is handled
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304 by <em>git-fetch-pack</em>, <em>--exec=<upload-pack></em> is passed to
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305 the command to specify non-default path for the command
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306 run on the other end.
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314 When <tt>git-fetch</tt> is used with <tt><rbranch>:<lbranch></tt>
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315 refspec, it refuses to update the local branch
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316 <tt><lbranch></tt> unless the remote branch <tt><rbranch></tt> it
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317 fetches is a descendant of <tt><lbranch></tt>. This option
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318 overrides that check.
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326 By default, <tt>git-fetch</tt> fetches tags that point at
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327 objects that are downloaded from the remote repository
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328 and stores them locally. This option disables this
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329 automatic tag following.
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337 Most of the tags are fetched automatically as branch
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338 heads are downloaded, but tags that do not point at
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339 objects reachable from the branch heads that are being
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340 tracked will not be fetched by this mechanism. This
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341 flag lets all tags and their associated objects be
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350 Keep downloaded pack.
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354 -u, --update-head-ok
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358 By default <tt>git-fetch</tt> refuses to update the head which
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359 corresponds to the current branch. This flag disables the
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360 check. Note that fetching into the current branch will not
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361 update the index and working directory, so use it with care.
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369 The "remote" repository that is the source of a fetch
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370 or pull operation, or the destination of a push operation.
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371 One of the following notations can be used
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372 to name the remote repository:
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374 <div class="exampleblock">
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375 <div class="exampleblock-content">
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379 rsync://host.xz/path/to/repo.git/
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384 http://host.xz/path/to/repo.git/
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389 https://host.xz/path/to/repo.git/
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394 git://host.xz/path/to/repo.git/
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399 git://host.xz/~user/path/to/repo.git/
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404 ssh://host.xz/path/to/repo.git/
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409 ssh://host.xz/~user/path/to/repo.git/
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414 ssh://host.xz/~/path/to/repo.git
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419 <p>SSH Is the default transport protocol and also supports an
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420 scp-like syntax. Both syntaxes support username expansion,
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421 as does the native git protocol. The following three are
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422 identical to the last three above, respectively:</p>
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423 <div class="exampleblock">
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424 <div class="exampleblock-content">
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428 host.xz:/path/to/repo.git/
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433 host.xz:~user/path/to/repo.git/
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438 host.xz:path/to/repo.git
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443 <p>To sync with a local directory, use:</p>
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444 <div class="exampleblock">
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445 <div class="exampleblock-content">
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454 <p>In addition to the above, as a short-hand, the name of a
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455 file in <tt>$GIT_DIR/remotes</tt> directory can be given; the
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456 named file should be in the following format:</p>
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457 <div class="literalblock">
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458 <div class="content">
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459 <pre><tt>URL: one of the above URL format
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460 Push: <refspec>
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461 Pull: <refspec></tt></pre>
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463 <p>When such a short-hand is specified in place of
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464 <repository> without <refspec> parameters on the command
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465 line, <refspec> specified on <tt>Push:</tt> lines or <tt>Pull:</tt>
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466 lines are used for <tt>git-push</tt> and <tt>git-fetch</tt>/<tt>git-pull</tt>,
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467 respectively. Multiple <tt>Push:</tt> and and <tt>Pull:</tt> lines may
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468 be specified for additional branch mappings.</p>
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469 <p>The name of a file in <tt>$GIT_DIR/branches</tt> directory can be
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470 specified as an older notation short-hand; the named
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471 file should contain a single line, a URL in one of the
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472 above formats, optionally followed by a hash <tt>#</tt> and the
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473 name of remote head (URL fragment notation).
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474 <tt>$GIT_DIR/branches/<remote></tt> file that stores a <url>
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475 without the fragment is equivalent to have this in the
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476 corresponding file in the <tt>$GIT_DIR/remotes/</tt> directory.</p>
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477 <div class="literalblock">
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478 <div class="content">
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479 <pre><tt>URL: <url>
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480 Pull: refs/heads/master:<remote></tt></pre>
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482 <p>while having <tt><url>#<head></tt> is equivalent to</p>
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483 <div class="literalblock">
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484 <div class="content">
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485 <pre><tt>URL: <url>
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486 Pull: refs/heads/<head>:<remote></tt></pre>
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494 The canonical format of a <refspec> parameter is
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495 <tt>+?<src>:<dst></tt>; that is, an optional plus <tt>+</tt>, followed
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496 by the source ref, followed by a colon <tt>:</tt>, followed by
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497 the destination ref.
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499 <p>When used in <tt>git-push</tt>, the <src> side can be an
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500 arbitrary "SHA1 expression" that can be used as an
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501 argument to <tt>git-cat-file -t</tt>. E.g. <tt>master~4</tt> (push
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502 four parents before the current master head).</p>
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503 <p>For <tt>git-push</tt>, the local ref that matches <src> is used
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504 to fast forward the remote ref that matches <dst>. If
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505 the optional plus <tt>+</tt> is used, the remote ref is updated
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506 even if it does not result in a fast forward update.</p>
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507 <p>For <tt>git-fetch</tt> and <tt>git-pull</tt>, the remote ref that matches <src>
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508 is fetched, and if <dst> is not empty string, the local
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509 ref that matches it is fast forwarded using <src>.
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510 Again, if the optional plus <tt>+</tt> is used, the local ref
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511 is updated even if it does not result in a fast forward
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513 <div class="admonitionblock">
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516 <div class="title">Note</div>
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518 <td class="content">If the remote branch from which you want to pull is
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519 modified in non-linear ways such as being rewound and
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520 rebased frequently, then a pull will attempt a merge with
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521 an older version of itself, likely conflict, and fail.
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522 It is under these conditions that you would want to use
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523 the <tt>+</tt> sign to indicate non-fast-forward updates will
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524 be needed. There is currently no easy way to determine
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525 or declare that a branch will be made available in a
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526 repository with this behavior; the pulling user simply
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527 must know this is the expected usage pattern for a branch.</td>
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530 <div class="admonitionblock">
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533 <div class="title">Note</div>
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535 <td class="content">You never do your own development on branches that appear
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536 on the right hand side of a <refspec> colon on <tt>Pull:</tt> lines;
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537 they are to be updated by <tt>git-fetch</tt>. If you intend to do
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538 development derived from a remote branch <tt>B</tt>, have a <tt>Pull:</tt>
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539 line to track it (i.e. <tt>Pull: B:remote-B</tt>), and have a separate
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540 branch <tt>my-B</tt> to do your development on top of it. The latter
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541 is created by <tt>git branch my-B remote-B</tt> (or its equivalent <tt>git
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542 checkout -b my-B remote-B</tt>). Run <tt>git fetch</tt> to keep track of
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543 the progress of the remote side, and when you see something new
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544 on the remote branch, merge it into your development branch with
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545 <tt>git pull . remote-B</tt>, while you are on <tt>my-B</tt> branch.
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546 The common <tt>Pull: master:origin</tt> mapping of a remote <tt>master</tt>
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547 branch to a local <tt>origin</tt> branch, which is then merged to a
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548 local development branch, again typically named <tt>master</tt>, is made
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549 when you run <tt>git clone</tt> for you to follow this pattern.</td>
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552 <div class="admonitionblock">
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555 <div class="title">Note</div>
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557 <td class="content">There is a difference between listing multiple <refspec>
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558 directly on <tt>git-pull</tt> command line and having multiple
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559 <tt>Pull:</tt> <refspec> lines for a <repository> and running
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560 <tt>git-pull</tt> command without any explicit <refspec> parameters.
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561 <refspec> listed explicitly on the command line are always
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562 merged into the current branch after fetching. In other words,
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563 if you list more than one remote refs, you would be making
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564 an Octopus. While <tt>git-pull</tt> run without any explicit <refspec>
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565 parameter takes default <refspec>s from <tt>Pull:</tt> lines, it
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566 merges only the first <refspec> found into the current branch,
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567 after fetching all the remote refs. This is because making an
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568 Octopus from remote refs is rarely done, while keeping track
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569 of multiple remote heads in one-go by fetching more than one
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570 is often useful.</td>
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573 <p>Some short-cut notations are also supported.</p>
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577 <tt>tag <tag></tt> means the same as <tt>refs/tags/<tag>:refs/tags/<tag></tt>;
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578 used with pull or fetch, it requests fetching everything up to
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584 A parameter <ref> without a colon is equivalent to
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585 <ref>: when pulling/fetching, and <ref><tt>:</tt><ref> when
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586 pushing. That is, do not store it locally if
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587 fetching, and update the same name if pushing.
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595 <div class="sectionbody">
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596 <p><a href="git-pull.html">git-pull(1)</a></p>
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599 <div class="sectionbody">
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600 <p>Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> and
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601 Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net></p>
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603 <h2>Documentation</h2>
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604 <div class="sectionbody">
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605 <p>Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.</p>
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608 <div class="sectionbody">
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609 <p>Part of the <a href="git.html">git(7)</a> suite</p>
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613 Last updated 26-Jan-2006 19:38:18 PDT
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