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author | Junio C Hamano <junio@kernel.org> | 2010-01-21 17:46:43 +0000 |
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committer | Junio C Hamano <junio@kernel.org> | 2010-01-21 17:46:43 +0000 |
commit | 1aa40d2e3f5186afb805e7020577acb9f5f78b89 (patch) | |
tree | 72812d480799e16b94f9cfed423b8d7d45c7fb4f /pull-fetch-param.txt | |
parent | a9701f0184382d8de7380c56558718915905746a (diff) | |
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diff --git a/pull-fetch-param.txt b/pull-fetch-param.txt index 0551ebdfa..5dd6e5a0c 100644 --- a/pull-fetch-param.txt +++ b/pull-fetch-param.txt @@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ must know this is the expected usage pattern for a branch. [NOTE] You never do your own development on branches that appear on the right hand side of a <refspec> colon on `Pull:` lines; -they are to be updated by 'git-fetch'. If you intend to do +they are to be updated by 'git fetch'. If you intend to do development derived from a remote branch `B`, have a `Pull:` line to track it (i.e. `Pull: B:remote-B`), and have a separate branch `my-B` to do your development on top of it. The latter @@ -50,13 +50,13 @@ on the remote branch, merge it into your development branch with + [NOTE] There is a difference between listing multiple <refspec> -directly on 'git-pull' command line and having multiple +directly on 'git pull' command line and having multiple `Pull:` <refspec> lines for a <repository> and running -'git-pull' command without any explicit <refspec> parameters. +'git pull' command without any explicit <refspec> parameters. <refspec> listed explicitly on the command line are always merged into the current branch after fetching. In other words, if you list more than one remote refs, you would be making -an Octopus. While 'git-pull' run without any explicit <refspec> +an Octopus. While 'git pull' run without any explicit <refspec> parameter takes default <refspec>s from `Pull:` lines, it merges only the first <refspec> found into the current branch, after fetching all the remote refs. This is because making an |