git-http-fetch (1) Linux Manual Page
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 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.