From: Geoff Russell <geoffrey.russell@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 10:37:19 GMT
Subject: Re: git pull (Re: need advice on usage patterns)
Message-ID: <AANLkTimP8oQ-482QMuTjnX0zvCfadoQvq+=MkADfkTbV@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikPHARaosHLwaKUqL12va4F7O3WMp1I4LIpu7Mp@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 7:56 PM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
<avarab@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 03:36, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> -'git pull' <options> <repository> <refspec>...
>> +'git pull' <options> <repository> <branch>...
>
> Wasn't it "refspec" because git-pull can take args like
> "refs/remotes/origin/*:refs/heads/*", not just branch names?
>

Yes.

Thinking about the pull as 2 operations "fetch+merge" should have
alerted me to the
possibility that it could update 2 branches, ... the one in the
<refspec> as well
as the current branch ... if they are different.

Thanks,

Geoff