> [Introduced](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-runner/-/issues/4142) in GitLab Runner 13.1.
The `GIT_FETCH_EXTRA_FLAGS` variable is used to control the behavior of
`git fetch`. You can set it globally or per-job in the [`variables`](#variables) section.
`GIT_FETCH_EXTRA_FLAGS` accepts all possible options of the [`git fetch`](https://git-scm.com/docs/git-fetch) command, but please note that `GIT_FETCH_EXTRA_FLAGS` flags will be appended after the default flags that can't be modified.
The default flags are:
-[GIT_DEPTH](#shallow-cloning).
- The list of [refspecs](https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Internals-The-Refspec).
- A remote called `origin`.
If `GIT_FETCH_EXTRA_FLAGS` is:
- Not specified, `git fetch` flags default to `--prune --quiet` along with the default flags.
- Given the value `none`, `git fetch` is executed only with the default flags.
For example, the default flags are `--prune --quiet`, so you can make `git fetch` more verbose by overriding this with just `--prune`:
```yaml
variables:
GIT_FETCH_EXTRA_FLAGS:--prune
script:
-ls -al cache/
```
The configurtion above will result in `git fetch` being called this way:
```bash
git fetch origin $REFSPECS--depth 50 --prune
```
Where `$REFSPECS` is a value provided to the Runner internally by GitLab.
### Job stages attempts
> Introduced in GitLab, it requires GitLab Runner v1.9+.
