Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: update git-pull.txt for clone's new default behavior

From: "J. Bruce Fields" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2007 19:06:06 -0500

On Mon, Jan 01, 2007 at 03:59:44PM -0800, Luben Tuikov wrote:
> --- "J. Bruce Fields" <[email-masked]> wrote:
> > +git pull origin next::
> 
> No.
> 
> > +	Merge into the current branch the remote branch `next`;
> 
> So, "origin" now means "current branch".

No, "origin" refers to the remote repository that you originally cloned
from.

Pulls always merge into the current branch.  So it wouldn't make sense
to specify the current branch on the command line.

--b.