From: Junio C Hamano Date: Thu, 29 May 2014 22:42:30 GMT Subject: [PATCH 5/5] fetch doc: update refspec format description Message-ID: <1401403350-7122-6-git-send-email-gitster@pobox.com> In-Reply-To: <1401403350-7122-1-git-send-email-gitster@pobox.com> The text made it sound as if the leading plus is the only thing that is optional, and forgot that is the same as :, i.e. fetch it and do not store anywhere. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- Documentation/pull-fetch-param.txt | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/Documentation/pull-fetch-param.txt b/Documentation/pull-fetch-param.txt index ea4c5a6..27cfd5c 100644 --- a/Documentation/pull-fetch-param.txt +++ b/Documentation/pull-fetch-param.txt @@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ endif::git-pull[] The format of a parameter is an optional plus `+`, followed by the source ref , followed by a colon `:`, followed by the destination ref . + The colon can be omitted when is empty. + The remote ref that matches is fetched, and if is not empty string, the local -- 2.0.0-479-g59ac8f9