From: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 17:56:41 GMT
Subject: Re: "git pull . <branch>" versus "git merge <branch>"
Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.1.00.0806111340570.19665@iabervon.org>
In-Reply-To: <484F2174.9020508@keyaccess.nl>

On Wed, 11 Jun 2008, Rene Herman wrote:

> Good day.
> 
> The manpages seem to be making somewhat of a point of mentioning "git pull .
> <branch>" as the way to merge a local branch into the current one but a simple
> "git merge <branch>" seems to work well. Is there a difference?

Those manpage sections predate the existance of "git merge <branch>". If 
you're not planning to use git before November 2006, there's no reason to 
use the "git pull ." form. They should probably be replaced with more 
helpful examples at this point.

	-Daniel
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