However the program refuses to work if more than one
remote head matches the specified heads. I am not sure
what this means... Help!!!!!
git-fetch-pack - Receive missing objects from another repository.
git-fetch-pack [-q] [--exec=<git-upload-pack>] [<host>:]<directory> [<head>…] < <commit-list>
Invokes git-upload-pack on a potentially remote repository, and asks it to send objects missing from this repository, to update the named heads. The list of commits available locally is fed from the standard input, to be sent to git-upload-pack running on the other end.
This command can be used only when the local side has a common (ancestor) commit with the remote head that is being pulled from. Use git-clone-pack for that.
Pass -q flag to git-unpack-objects; this makes the cloning process less verbose.
Use this to specify the path to git-upload-pack on the remote side, if is not found on your $PATH. Installations of sshd ignores the user's environment setup scripts for login shells (e.g. .bash_profile) and your privately installed GIT may not be found on the system default $PATH. Another workaround suggested is to set up your $PATH in ".bashrc", but this flag is for people who do not want to pay the overhead for non-interactive shells by having a lean .bashrc file (they set most of the things up in .bash_profile).
A remote host that houses the repository. When this part is specified, git-upload-pack is invoked via ssh.
The repository to sync from.
The remote heads to update from. This is relative to $GIT_DIR (e.g. "HEAD", "refs/heads/master"). When unspecified, update from all heads the remote side has.
However the program refuses to work if more than one
remote head matches the specified heads. I am not sure
what this means... Help!!!!!
Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Documentation by Junio C Hamano.
Part of the git suite