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Re: git pull unclear manual

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Mar 4, 2021, 23:24 UTC
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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.

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> 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?

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