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authorJunio C Hamano <junio@kernel.org>2010-01-21 17:46:43 +0000
committerJunio C Hamano <junio@kernel.org>2010-01-21 17:46:43 +0000
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@@ -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