From: Tom Lambda <tom.lambda@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 16:47:32 GMT
Subject: git pull merges current branch even when <dst> is specified
Message-ID: <1245862052581-3149948.post@n2.nabble.com>


If I am in 'master' and 'bugfix' is a remote branch in 'repo' which I do not
have locally yet, running:

git pull repo bugfix:bugfix

creates a new local branch 'bugfix' equals to 'repo/bugfix' as expected.
However, it also merges 'bugfix' into 'master', that surprises me since I
explicitly specify that <dst> is 'bugfix'.

I know that I can get what I want by running:

git fetch repo bugfix:bugfix

But the git-pull behavior looks odd to me. I thought that <dst> was the
current branch by default and it could be overridden by specifying it in the
command line.

Thank you,
Tom

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