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-rw-r--r--Documentation/fetch-options.txt7
-rwxr-xr-xgit-fetch.sh8
2 files changed, 14 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/fetch-options.txt b/Documentation/fetch-options.txt
index e624d3d0e..83237562d 100644
--- a/Documentation/fetch-options.txt
+++ b/Documentation/fetch-options.txt
@@ -3,6 +3,13 @@
existing contents of `.git/FETCH_HEAD`. Without this
option old data in `.git/FETCH_HEAD` will be overwritten.
+--upload-pack <upload-pack>::
+-u <upload-pack>::
+ When given, and the repository to fetch from is handled
+ by 'git-fetch-pack', '--exec=<upload-pack>' is passed to
+ the command to specify non-default path for the command
+ run on the other end.
+
-f, \--force::
When `git-fetch` is used with `<rbranch>:<lbranch>`
refspec, it refuses to update the local branch
diff --git a/git-fetch.sh b/git-fetch.sh
index 4a0cb32f3..d1659e2cf 100755
--- a/git-fetch.sh
+++ b/git-fetch.sh
@@ -17,12 +17,18 @@ append=
force=
verbose=
update_head_ok=
+exec=
while case "$#" in 0) break ;; esac
do
case "$1" in
-a|--a|--ap|--app|--appe|--appen|--append)
append=t
;;
+ -u|--u|--up|--upl|--uploa|--upload|--upload-|--upload-p|--upload-pa|\
+ --upload-pac|--upload-pack)
+ shift
+ exec="--exec=$1"
+ ;;
-f|--f|--fo|--for|--forc|--force)
force=t
;;
@@ -312,7 +318,7 @@ fetch_main () {
( : subshell because we muck with IFS
IFS=" $LF"
(
- git-fetch-pack $keep "$remote" $rref || echo failed "$remote"
+ git-fetch-pack $exec $keep "$remote" $rref || echo failed "$remote"
) |
while read sha1 remote_name
do