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authorJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2009-11-23 00:03:15 -0800
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2009-11-23 00:03:15 -0800
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Merge branch 'bg/fetch-multi'
* bg/fetch-multi: Re-implement 'git remote update' using 'git fetch' builtin-fetch: add --dry-run option builtin-fetch: add --prune option teach warn_dangling_symref to take a FILE argument remote: refactor some logic into get_stale_heads() Add missing test for 'git remote update --prune' Add the configuration option skipFetchAll Teach the --multiple option to 'git fetch' Teach the --all option to 'git fetch'
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@@ -10,11 +10,17 @@ SYNOPSIS
--------
'git fetch' <options> <repository> <refspec>...
+'git fetch' <options> <group>
+
+'git fetch' --multiple <options> [<repository> | <group>]...
+
+'git fetch' --all <options>
+
DESCRIPTION
-----------
-Fetches named heads or tags from another repository, along with
-the objects necessary to complete them.
+Fetches named heads or tags from one or more other repositories,
+along with the objects necessary to complete them.
The ref names and their object names of fetched refs are stored
in `.git/FETCH_HEAD`. This information is left for a later merge
@@ -28,6 +34,10 @@ pointed by remote tags that it does not yet have, then fetch
those missing tags. If the other end has tags that point at
branches you are not interested in, you will not get them.
+'git fetch' can fetch from either a single named repository, or
+or from several repositories at once if <group> is given and
+there is a remotes.<group> entry in the configuration file.
+(See linkgit:git-config[1]).
OPTIONS
-------