From: Philippe Blain via GitGitGadget Date: Sun, 05 Apr 2020 15:50:19 GMT Subject: [PATCH 2/2] pull doc: correct outdated description of an example Message-ID: <46365925d22d31feae7618614dd7872a19bebeef.1586101819.git.gitgitgadget@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: From: Philippe Blain Since f269048754 (fetch: opportunistically update tracking refs, 2013-05-11), the underlying `git fetch` in `git pull ` updates the configured remote-tracking branch for . However, an example in the 'Examples' section of the `git pull` documentation still states that this is not the case. Correct the description of this example. Signed-off-by: Philippe Blain --- Documentation/git-pull.txt | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/git-pull.txt b/Documentation/git-pull.txt index dfb901f8b83..21e10905fa2 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-pull.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-pull.txt @@ -229,9 +229,9 @@ branch..merge options; see linkgit:git-config[1] for details. $ git pull origin next ------------------------------------------------ + -This leaves a copy of `next` temporarily in FETCH_HEAD, but -does not update any remote-tracking branches. Using remote-tracking -branches, the same can be done by invoking fetch and merge: +This leaves a copy of `next` temporarily in FETCH_HEAD, and +updates the remote-tracking branch `origin/next`. +The same can be done by invoking fetch and merge: + ------------------------------------------------ $ git fetch origin -- gitgitgadget