From: Matt Graham Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2008 19:48:35 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add examples section to 'git fetch' manual Message-ID: <1c5969370804131248rca9765ei338a70cb6ff304f7@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <7v63uld1nu.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 2:56 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Teemu Likonen writes: > > > +git fetch origin:: > > + From the remote named `origin` fetch and store all branches as > > + configured in `remote.origin.fetch`. Usually this means fetching all > > + branches and storing them locally as remote tracking branches > > + `origin/*`. See linkgit:git-remote[1] for more information. > > This is a valid thing to add to the examples section, although I suspect > people would already know it when they encouter this page. As a recent CVS emigrant, I'm finding the refspecs one of the more confusing areas of git. I think having good, basic examples might be more helpful than experienced users expect. In my case at least, this is a helpful example.