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Re: git pull on a branch semantics

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Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date
Jan 22, 2006, 21:02 UTC
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Luben Tuikov <ltuikov@yahoo.com> writes:
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> URL:<url>
> Pull:projectC:projectC
> Push:projectC:projectC
>
> That is both here and remotely I've projectC being a branch
> here and remotely.
>
> I'd like to pull changes to projectC only, from the remote projectC to the local projectC, but my
> current branch is A.
>
> I blissfully do:
>
> git pull projectC

You wanted to "git fetch", not "git pull" which is "fetch followed by merge into the current branch".

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