GIT-HTTP-FETCH(1) Git Manual GIT-HTTP-FETCH(1)

NAME

git-http-fetch - Download from a remote Git repository via HTTP

SYNOPSIS

git http-fetch [-c] [-t] [-a] [-d] [-v] [-w <filename>] [--recover] [--stdin | --packfile=<hash> | <commit>] <URL>

DESCRIPTION

Downloads a remote Git repository via HTTP.

This command always gets all objects. Historically, there were three
options -a, -c and -t for choosing which objects to download. They
are now silently ignored.

OPTIONS

commit-id
Either the hash or the filename under [URL]/refs/ to pull.

-a, -c, -t
These options are ignored for historical reasons.

-v
Report what is downloaded.

-w <filename>
Writes the commit-id into the specified filename under
$GIT_DIR/refs/<filename> on the local end after the transfer is
complete.

--stdin
Instead of a commit id on the command line (which is not expected
in this case), git http-fetch expects lines on stdin in the
format

<commit-id>['\t'<filename-as-in--w>]

--packfile=<hash>
For internal use only. Instead of a commit id on the command line
(which is not expected in this case), git http-fetch fetches the
packfile directly at the given URL and uses index-pack to
generate corresponding .idx and .keep files. The hash is used to
determine the name of the temporary file and is arbitrary. The
output of index-pack is printed to stdout. Requires
--index-pack-args.

--index-pack-args=<args>
For internal use only. The command to run on the contents of the
downloaded pack. Arguments are URL-encoded separated by spaces.

--recover
Verify that everything reachable from target is fetched. Used
after an earlier fetch is interrupted.

GIT

Part of the git(1) suite

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