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The Refspec option on the Fetch Options tab allows you to override the default behaviour of the fetch operation which will fetch all references under refs/heads/ on the remote repository and write them to refs/remotes/origin/ within the local repository. This option allows you to specify the source and destination references in the following way: Andlt;source refAndgt;:Andlt;destination refAndgt;<source ref>:<destination ref>. For more information about using the refspec option when fetching in git see .
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Force - When using the refspec option to specify Andlt;remote branchAndgt;:Andlt;local branchAndgt; <remote branch>:<local branch> the fetch operation will not allow you update the local branch if the remote branch is not a descendant of the local branch. This option forces the fetch to occur regardless.
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