Subject: "git pull . <branch>" versus "git merge <branch>"

From: Rene Herman <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 02:51:00 +0200

Good day.

The manpages seem to be making somewhat of a point of mentioning "git 
pull . <branch>" as the way to merge a local branch into the current one 
but a simple "git merge <branch>" seems to work well. Is there a difference?

Rene.