From: Johan 't Hart <johanthart@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 19:47:56 GMT
Subject: Re: Question about "git pull --rebase"
Message-ID: <4B005AEC.1000002@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <m2my2noo0g.fsf@gmail.com>

Francis Moreau schreef:
> Looks like you did :)
> 
> I've been somehow confused by the git-pull man page, which says:
> 
>   A parameter <ref> without a colon is equivalent to <ref>: when
>   pulling/fetching, so it merges <ref> into the current branch without
>   storing the remote branch anywhere locally
> 
> So I thought that both of the commands were equivalent for 'git pull
> --rebase'.
> 
> Thanks for the explanation.

Ah that part.

It means that
$ git pull --rebase origin master

means the same as:
$ git pull --rebase origin master:
(note extra colon at the end)

But not as:
$ git pull --rebase origin master:foo

It means that, when you give a refspec without a colon, it is the same 
as the refspec with the colon and without the right side.