From: Jonathan Nieder Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2010 19:08:17 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 09/10] user-manual.txt: explain better the remote(-tracking) branch terms Message-ID: <20101023190817.GL21040@burratino> In-Reply-To: <1287851481-27952-10-git-send-email-Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> Matthieu Moy wrote: > --- a/Documentation/user-manual.txt > +++ b/Documentation/user-manual.txt > @@ -1716,6 +1721,10 @@ one step: > $ git pull origin master > ------------------------------------------------- > > +This command will fetch the changes from the remote branch to your > +remote-tracking branch `origin/master`, and merge the result in the > +current branch. > + I wish. :) Actually this fetched to FETCH_HEAD and left origin/master alone the last time I checked.