From: Rene Herman <rene.herman@keyaccess.nl>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: git <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: "git pull . <branch>" versus "git merge <branch>"
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 03:00:34 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48507532.3030007@keyaccess.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7v3anjbmov.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
On 12-06-08 01:01, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Rene Herman <rene.herman@keyaccess.nl> writes:
>> The manpages seem to be making somewhat of a point of mentioning "git
>> pull . <branch>" as the way to merge a local branch into the current
>> one but a simple "git merge <branch>" seems to work well. Is there a
>> difference?
>
> There isn't any.
>
> "git pull . this_branch" is just a natural and logical consequence that
> you can fetch and merge a branch B from remote U with "git pull $U $B".
>
> "git merge that_branch" exists and useful because people on average merge
> local branches more than they fetch and merge from remote repository.
Thank you. Slowly getting more comfortable with git...
Rene.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-12 1:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-11 0:51 "git pull . <branch>" versus "git merge <branch>" Rene Herman
2008-06-11 1:06 ` David Symonds
2008-06-11 1:13 ` Rene Herman
2008-06-11 1:56 ` Miklos Vajna
2008-06-11 2:01 ` Rene Herman
2008-06-11 2:04 ` Paolo Bonzini
2008-06-11 2:09 ` Rene Herman
2008-06-11 5:23 ` Paolo Bonzini
2008-06-11 17:56 ` Daniel Barkalow
2008-06-11 18:32 ` Brandon Casey
2008-06-11 19:46 ` Daniel Barkalow
2008-06-11 21:01 ` Brandon Casey
2008-06-11 21:49 ` Mikael Magnusson
2008-06-12 0:56 ` Rene Herman
2008-06-11 23:01 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-06-12 1:00 ` Rene Herman [this message]
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