From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 02 Apr 2009 02:24:20 GMT
Subject: Re: More help with "pull" please
Message-ID: <7viqlnokrv.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <F364AB31-EC5B-4719-834E-58613BDBC433@dbservice.com>

Tomas Carnecky <tom@dbservice.com> writes:

>> OK, that works by adding something to the config file, right?  The
>> docs
>> don't say, but does mention "having Pull: <refspec> lines for a
>> <repository>".  Does tracking add Pull: lines, or is that another
>> feature?
>
> I think Pull: lines are not used anymore in newer
> repositories.

If your repository is using .git/remotes/origin to name the "origin"
remote, they are still honored.  But you are correct to point out that
branch.<name>.remote and with the remote.<name>.* variables in .git/config
are used to control these more recent features.  So in that sense the
documentation is still correct.