From: Sergey Organov <sorganov@gmail.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git pull unclear manual
Date: Sun, 07 Mar 2021 21:57:33 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y2eyg5b6.fsf@osv.gnss.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: xmqqy2f2biz5.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
> Sergey Organov <sorganov@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Do you think the manual needs some improvement still?
>
> My reading is already tainted by using Git for a long time, so I
> won't be the best person to judge what's missing in the manual.
>
>> I mean, I'd then expect something like this as the SYNOPSIS:
>>
>> "git-pull - Fetch from and integrate with another or current repository"
>> ...
>> git-fetch - Download objects and refs from *another repository*
>
> Just replacing "another repository" with "a repository", the latter
> of which includes the current one, would be sufficient, perhaps?
Yeah, just "a repository" is fine with me, perhaps followed by a note in
the DESCRIPTION that the current one is indeed included.
-- Sergey
prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-03-07 18:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-03-03 14:18 git pull unclear manual Sergey Organov
2021-03-04 1:18 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-03-04 11:52 ` Sergey Organov
2021-03-04 23:24 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-03-07 18:57 ` Sergey Organov [this message]
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