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diff --git a/Documentation/git-fetch.txt b/Documentation/git-fetch.txt index f2483d624e..948ea26c5a 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-fetch.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-fetch.txt @@ -10,15 +10,21 @@ 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 -operation done by 'git-merge'. +operation done by 'git merge'. When <refspec> stores the fetched result in tracking branches, the tags that point at these branches are automatically @@ -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 ------- |