Merge branch 'cc/maint-bisect-paths' into maint

[git.git] / Documentation / git-fetch.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/git-fetch.txt b/Documentation/git-fetch.txt
index f2483d624ead24031ef3cf320a0c151cc6f6cb2b..948ea26c5a2b3825e61d0c6495d03829669a7351 100644 (file)
--- 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
 -------