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From: Tom Lambda <tom.lambda@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: git pull merges current branch even when <dst> is specified
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 09:47:32 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1245862052581-3149948.post@n2.nabble.com> (raw)


If I am in 'master' and 'bugfix' is a remote branch in 'repo' which I do not
have locally yet, running:

git pull repo bugfix:bugfix

creates a new local branch 'bugfix' equals to 'repo/bugfix' as expected.
However, it also merges 'bugfix' into 'master', that surprises me since I
explicitly specify that <dst> is 'bugfix'.

I know that I can get what I want by running:

git fetch repo bugfix:bugfix

But the git-pull behavior looks odd to me. I thought that <dst> was the
current branch by default and it could be overridden by specifying it in the
command line.

Thank you,
Tom

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             reply	other threads:[~2009-06-24 16:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-24 16:47 Tom Lambda [this message]
2009-06-25  8:52 ` git pull merges current branch even when <dst> is specified Michael J Gruber
2009-06-25  9:44   ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-06-25 13:28     ` Tom Lambda

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