Alter the description of <repository> in OPTIONS section to explicitly state that a 'remote name' is accepted. Rewrite REMOTES section to more directly identify the different kinds of remote-name permitted.
Signed-off-by: John J. Franey <jjfraney@gmail.com> ---
Here is a second version of a proposal to change the wording in git-pull/git-fetch. I believe I have addressed all of Junio's comments.
Documentation/pull-fetch-param.txt | 4 +- Documentation/urls-remotes.txt | 93 +++++++++++++++++++++++------------- 2 files changed, 63 insertions(+), 34 deletions(-)
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Documentation/pull-fetch-param.txt, Documentation/urls-remotes.txt
diff --git a/Documentation/pull-fetch-param.txt b/Documentation/pull-fetch-param.txt index b6eb7fc..cbee369 100644 --- a/Documentation/pull-fetch-param.txt +++ b/Documentation/pull-fetch-param.txt @@ -1,6 +1,8 @@ <repository>:: The "remote" repository that is the source of a fetch - or pull operation. See the section <<URLS,GIT URLS>> below. + or pull operation. This parameter can be either a URL + (see the section <<URLS,GIT URLS>> below) or the name + of a remote (see the section <<REMOTES,REMOTES>> below). <refspec>:: The canonical format of a <refspec> parameter is diff --git a/Documentation/urls-remotes.txt b/Documentation/urls-remotes.txt index 5dd1f83..9975300 100644 --- a/Documentation/urls-remotes.txt +++ b/Documentation/urls-remotes.txt @@ -1,55 +1,82 @@ include::urls.txt[] -REMOTES -------- +REMOTES[[REMOTES]] +------------------ -In addition to the above, as a short-hand, the name of a -file in `$GIT_DIR/remotes` directory can be given; the -named file should be in the following format: +The name of one of the following can be used instead +of a URL as `<repository>` argument: ------------- - URL: one of the above URL format - Push: <refspec> - Pull: <refspec> +* a remote in the git configuration file: `$GIT_DIR/config`, +* a file in the `$GIT_DIR/remotes` directory, or +* a file in the `$GIT_DIR/branches` directory. ------------- +All of these also allow you to omit the refspec from the command line +because they each contain a refspec which git will use by default. -Then such a short-hand is specified in place of -<repository> without <refspec> parameters on the command -line, <refspec> specified on `Push:` lines or `Pull:` -lines are used for `git-push` and `git-fetch`/`git-pull`, -respectively. Multiple `Push:` and `Pull:` lines may -be specified for additional branch mappings. +Named remote in configuration file +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -Or, equivalently, in the `$GIT_DIR/config` (note the use -of `fetch` instead of `Pull:`): +You can choose to provide the name of a remote which you had previously +configured using linkgit:git-remote[1], linkgit:git-config[1] +or even by a manual edit to the `$GIT_DIR/config` file. The URL of +this remote will be used to access the repository. The refspec +of this remote will be used by default when you do +not provide a refspec on the command line. The entry in the +config file would appear like this: ------------ - [remote "<remote>"] + [remote "<name>"] url = <url> push = <refspec> fetch = <refspec> - ------------ -The name of a file in `$GIT_DIR/branches` directory can be -specified as an older notation short-hand; the named -file should contain a single line, a URL in one of the -above formats, optionally followed by a hash `#` and the -name of remote head (URL fragment notation). -`$GIT_DIR/branches/<remote>` file that stores a <url> -without the fragment is equivalent to have this in the -corresponding file in the `$GIT_DIR/remotes/` directory. + +Named file in `$GIT_DIR/remotes` +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +You can choose to provide the name of a +file in `$GIT_DIR/remotes`. The URL +in this file will be used to access the repository. The refspec +in this file will be used as default when you do not +provide a refspec on the command line. This file should have the +following format: + +------------ + URL: one of the above URL format + Push: <refspec> + Pull: <refspec> ------------ - URL: <url> - Pull: refs/heads/master:<remote> +`Push:` lines are used by `git-push` and +`Pull:` lines are used by `git-pull` and `git-fetch`. +Multiple `Push:` and `Pull:` lines may +be specified for additional branch mappings. + +Named file in `$GIT_DIR/branches` +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +You can choose to provide the name of a +file in `$GIT_DIR/branches`. +The URL in this file will be used to access the repository. +This file should have the following format: + + +------------ + <url>#<head> ------------ -while having `<url>#<head>` is equivalent to +`<url>` is required; `#<head>` is optional. +When you do not provide a refspec on the command line, +git will use the following refspec, where `<head>` defaults to `master`, +and `<repository>` is the name of this file +you provided in the command line. ------------ - URL: <url> - Pull: refs/heads/<head>:<remote> + refs/heads/<head>:<repository> ------------ + + + +
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