Re: git pull unclear manual

From: Sergey Organov <sorganov@gmail.com>
Date: Mar 7, 2021, 18:57 UTC
Message-ID: <87y2eyg5b6.fsf@osv.gnss.ru>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqy2f2biz5.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

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> Sergey Organov <sorganov@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Do you think the manual needs some improvement still?
>
> My reading is already tainted by using Git for a long time, so I
> won't be the best person to judge what's missing in the manual.
>
>> I mean, I'd then expect something like this as the SYNOPSIS:
>>
>> "git-pull - Fetch from and integrate with another or current repository"
>> ...
>>   git-fetch - Download objects and refs from *another repository*
>
> Just replacing "another repository" with "a repository", the latter
> of which includes the current one, would be sufficient, perhaps?

Yeah, just "a repository" is fine with me, perhaps followed by a note in the DESCRIPTION that the current one is indeed included.

-- Sergey