# [PATCH] gittutorial: remove misleading note

3 messages from 2009-01-23 to 2009-01-23. Participants: Miklos Vajna, Junio C Hamano.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/17328

## Miklos Vajna, 2009-01-23 18:02

Subject: [PATCH] gittutorial: remove misleading note
Message-ID: <1232733749-6120-1-git-send-email-vmiklos@frugalware.org>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/1232733749-6120-1-git-send-email-vmiklos%40frugalware.org

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In 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(-)

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.
-- 
1.6.1

```

## Junio C Hamano, 2009-01-23 19:00

Subject: Re: [PATCH] gittutorial: remove misleading note
Message-ID: <7vk58lvoe5.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/7vk58lvoe5.fsf%40gitster.siamese.dyndns.org
In-Reply-To: <1232733749-6120-1-git-send-email-vmiklos@frugalware.org>

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Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org> writes:

> In 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.

So we have a usability regression here.  Perhaps we need to fix that
instead?

```

## Miklos Vajna, 2009-01-23 21:17

Subject: Re: [PATCH] gittutorial: remove misleading note
Message-ID: <20090123211734.GJ21473@genesis.frugalware.org>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20090123211734.GJ21473%40genesis.frugalware.org
In-Reply-To: <7vk58lvoe5.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

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On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 11:00:18AM -0800, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> So we have a usability regression here.  Perhaps we need to fix that
> instead?

I thought that's on purpose.

By doing a 'git fetch <url>' I don't say "what" to fetch, just "from
where".

Would it be better to fetch HEAD in that case?

```