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Summary

The fetch command fetch all the new changesets from a TFS remote

Synopsis

Usage: git-tfs fetch [options] [tfs-remote-id]...
  -h, -H, --help
  -V, --version
  -d, --debug                Show debug output about everything git-tfs does
  -i, --tfs-remote, --remote, --id=VALUE
                             The remote ID of the TFS to interact with
                               default: default
  -t, --up-to=VALUE,        up-to changeset # (optional, -1 for up to maximum, must be a number, not prefixed with C) 
  -I, --auto-tfs-remote, --auto-remote
                             Auto-detect (from git history) the remote ID of
                               the TFS to interact with
      --all, --fetch-all     Fetch TFS changesets of all the initialized tfs
                               remotes
      --parents              Fetch TFS changesets of the parent(s)
                               initialized tfs remotes
      --authors=VALUE        Path to an Authors file to map TFS users to Git
                               users
      --batch-size=VALUE     Size of the batch of tfs changesets fetched (-1 for all in one batch)
      --ignore-regex=VALUE   a regex of files to ignore
      --no-metadata          leave out the 'git-tfs-id:' tag in commit
                               messages
                               Use this when you're exporting from TFS and
                               don't need to put data back into TFS.
	  --ignore-branches-regex=VALUE 
							 Don't initialize branches that match given regex
	  --ignore-not-init-branches
							 Don't initialize additional branches (only use what already was initialized)
  --ignore-restricted-changesets
             Ignore changesets that the TFS user has no read access to
  -u, --username=VALUE       TFS user name
  -p, --password=VALUE       TFS password

Examples

Simple

To fetch all the changeset of the default remote:

git tfs fetch

Fetch from a branch

To fetch all the changesets of the tfs/myBranch remote:

git tfs fetch -i myBranch

Fetch from the current branch

To fetch all the changesets of the current remote:

git tfs fetch -I

The current remote depend of the git commit that is currently checkouted. Git-tfs will look in the history to find the appropriate remote to fetch.

Fetch from all the remotes

To fetch all the changesets of all the initialized remotes

git tfs fetch --all

Note: you could see all the tfs remotes already initialized using command git tfs branch and all that exists on the tfs server using command git tfs branch -r

Authentication

For the use of parameters --username and --password, see the clone command.

Map TFS users to git users

For the use of parameter --authors, see the clone command.

Fetching merge changesets

Merge changesets will be automatically fetched and created as a merge commit if the tfs branch merged has already been initialized in the git repository. If the tfs branch merged has not be initialized, the merge changeset will be created as a normal commit (not a merged one) and this warning message will be created :

warning: this changeset 34 is a merge changeset. But it can't have been managed accordingly because one of the parent changeset 33 is not present in the repository! If you want to do it, fetch the branch containing this changeset before retrying...

Batch size of fetched changesets

The option --batch-size permit to specify the number of changesets fetched from tfs at the same time (default:100). You could use this option to specify smaller batch size if git-tfs use too much memory because changesets are huge. This option is not saved but you could add it to the git config file (key git-tfs.batch-size). See config file doc. Note: this option could also be specified during the clone.

See also