From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox•net>
To: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses•org>
Cc: git@vger•kernel.org, Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce•org>,
Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx•de>,
Luben Tuikov <ltuikov@yahoo•com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: update git-pull.txt for clone's new default behavior
Date: Mon, 01 Jan 2007 16:12:29 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vhcva4782.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070102000606.GA32148@fieldses.org> (J. Bruce Fields's message of "Mon, 1 Jan 2007 19:06:06 -0500")
"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses•org> writes:
> On Mon, Jan 01, 2007 at 03:59:44PM -0800, Luben Tuikov wrote:
>> --- "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses•org> 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.
I was also somewhat confused by these examples. I think the
description is fine as long as we make it clear that they are
not meant to describe what an advanced user _could_ do with
various customizations, but to describe what happens with the
default configuration set up by git-clone.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-01-02 0:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-12-31 23:47 [PATCH] Docs: update cvs-migration.txt to reflect clone's new default behavior bfields
2006-12-31 23:47 ` [PATCH] Documentation: update git-clone.txt for " bfields
2006-12-31 23:47 ` [PATCH] Documentation: update git-pull.txt " bfields
2006-12-31 23:47 ` [PATCH] Documentation: update glossary entry for "origin" bfields
2006-12-31 23:47 ` [PATCH] Documentation: remove master:origin example from pull-fetch-param.txt bfields
2006-12-31 23:47 ` [PATCH] Documentation: update tutorial's discussion of origin bfields
2007-01-01 0:35 ` [PATCH] Documentation: update git-pull.txt for clone's new default behavior Junio C Hamano
2007-01-01 1:12 ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-01-01 1:44 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-01-01 3:29 ` Luben Tuikov
2007-01-01 3:48 ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-01-01 5:13 ` Luben Tuikov
2007-01-01 5:45 ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-01-01 7:53 ` Luben Tuikov
2007-01-01 7:38 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-01-01 8:19 ` Luben Tuikov
2007-01-01 13:17 ` Theodore Tso
2007-01-01 23:56 ` Luben Tuikov
2007-01-02 1:08 ` Theodore Tso
2007-01-02 2:17 ` Luben Tuikov
2007-01-02 3:45 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-01-02 18:39 ` Luben Tuikov
2007-01-01 21:39 ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-01-01 21:40 ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-01-02 0:01 ` Luben Tuikov
2007-01-02 0:10 ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-01-02 0:57 ` Theodore Tso
2007-01-02 1:28 ` Luben Tuikov
2007-01-02 6:32 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-01-02 2:09 ` Luben Tuikov
2007-01-02 0:21 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-01-02 0:38 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-01-02 2:05 ` Luben Tuikov
2007-01-02 3:36 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-01-02 11:31 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-01-02 18:48 ` Luben Tuikov
2007-01-02 19:22 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-01-02 19:30 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-01-05 23:15 ` Luben Tuikov
2007-01-05 23:20 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-01-05 23:32 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-01-06 0:32 ` Luben Tuikov
2007-01-06 0:22 ` Luben Tuikov
2007-01-06 1:17 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-01-01 23:59 ` Luben Tuikov
2007-01-02 0:06 ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-01-02 0:12 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
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