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Re: "git pull . <branch>" versus "git merge <branch>"

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David Symonds <dsymonds@gmail.com>
Date
Jun 11, 2008, 01:06 UTC
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On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 10:51 AM, Rene Herman <rene.herman@keyaccess.nl> wrote:
> 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?

git pull also does a fetch in it's usual mode of operation, and runs git merge to do merge changes in the remote-tracking branches.

Dave.
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