From: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@fieldses.org>
Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2007 00:06:06 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: update git-pull.txt for clone's new default behavior
Message-ID: <20070102000606.GA32148@fieldses.org>
In-Reply-To: <535252.4420.qm@web31811.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

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.

--b.