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It is misleading to say that we pull refs from $GIT_DIR/refs/*, because we
may also consult the packed refs mechanism. These days we tend to treat
the "refs hierarchy" as more of an abstract namespace that happens to be
represented as $GIT_DIR/refs. At best, this is a minor inaccuracy, but at
worst it can confuse users who then look in $GIT_DIR/refs and find that it
is missing some of the refs they expected to see.
This patch drops most uses of "$GIT_DIR/refs/*", changing them into just
"refs/*", under the assumption that users can handle the concept of an
abstract refs namespace. There are a few things to note:
- most cases just dropped the $GIT_DIR/ portion. But for cases where
that left _just_ the word "refs", I changed it to "refs/" to help
indicate that it was a hierarchy. I didn't do the same for longer
paths (e.g., "refs/heads" remained, instead of becoming
"refs/heads/").
- in some cases, no change was made, as the text was explicitly about
unpacked refs (e.g., the discussion in git-pack-refs).
- In some cases it made sense instead to note the existence of packed
refs (e.g., in check-ref-format and rev-parse).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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git-fetch-pack(1)
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NAME
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----
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git-fetch-pack - Receive missing objects from another repository
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SYNOPSIS
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--------
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'git fetch-pack' [--all] [--quiet|-q] [--keep|-k] [--thin] [--include-tag] [--upload-pack=<git-upload-pack>] [--depth=<n>] [--no-progress] [-v] [<host>:]<directory> [<refs>...]
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DESCRIPTION
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-----------
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Usually you would want to use 'git fetch', which is a
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higher level wrapper of this command, instead.
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Invokes 'git-upload-pack' on a possibly remote repository
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and asks it to send objects missing from this repository, to
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update the named heads. The list of commits available locally
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is found out by scanning the local refs/ hierarchy and sent to
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'git-upload-pack' running on the other end.
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This command degenerates to download everything to complete the
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asked refs from the remote side when the local side does not
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have a common ancestor commit.
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OPTIONS
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-------
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--all::
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Fetch all remote refs.
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-q::
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--quiet::
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Pass '-q' flag to 'git unpack-objects'; this makes the
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cloning process less verbose.
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-k::
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--keep::
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Do not invoke 'git unpack-objects' on received data, but
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create a single packfile out of it instead, and store it
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in the object database. If provided twice then the pack is
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locked against repacking.
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--thin::
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Spend extra cycles to minimize the number of objects to be sent.
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Use it on slower connection.
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--include-tag::
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If the remote side supports it, annotated tags objects will
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be downloaded on the same connection as the other objects if
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the object the tag references is downloaded. The caller must
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otherwise determine the tags this option made available.
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--upload-pack=<git-upload-pack>::
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Use this to specify the path to 'git-upload-pack' on the
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remote side, if is not found on your $PATH.
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Installations of sshd ignores the user's environment
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setup scripts for login shells (e.g. .bash_profile) and
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your privately installed git may not be found on the system
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default $PATH. Another workaround suggested is to set
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up your $PATH in ".bashrc", but this flag is for people
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who do not want to pay the overhead for non-interactive
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shells by having a lean .bashrc file (they set most of
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the things up in .bash_profile).
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--exec=<git-upload-pack>::
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Same as \--upload-pack=<git-upload-pack>.
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--depth=<n>::
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Limit fetching to ancestor-chains not longer than n.
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--no-progress::
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Do not show the progress.
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-v::
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Run verbosely.
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<host>::
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A remote host that houses the repository. When this
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part is specified, 'git-upload-pack' is invoked via
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ssh.
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<directory>::
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The repository to sync from.
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<refs>...::
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The remote heads to update from. This is relative to
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$GIT_DIR (e.g. "HEAD", "refs/heads/master"). When
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unspecified, update from all heads the remote side has.
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Author
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------
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Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Documentation
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--------------
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Documentation by Junio C Hamano.
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GIT
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---
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Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite
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