Miklos VajnaIn the tutorial Alice initializes the repository, and Bob clones it. So Bob can just do a 'git pull', but Alice will need 'git pull <url> <branch>'.
The note suggested that the branch parameter is not necessary, which is no longer true these days.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org> ---
The problem was reported by DanC on IRC.
Documentation/gittutorial.txt | 4 +--- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/Documentation/gittutorial.txt b/Documentation/gittutorial.txt index 458fafd..c5d5596 100644 --- a/Documentation/gittutorial.txt +++ b/Documentation/gittutorial.txt @@ -308,9 +308,7 @@ alice$ git pull /home/bob/myrepo master This merges the changes from Bob's "master" branch into Alice's current branch. If Alice has made her own changes in the meantime, -then she may need to manually fix any conflicts. (Note that the -"master" argument in the above command is actually unnecessary, as it -is the default.) +then she may need to manually fix any conflicts. The "pull" command thus performs two operations: it fetches changes from a remote branch, then merges them into the current branch.
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