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From: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
To: gitster@pobox.com
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org,
	"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@pig.linuxdev.us.dell.com>,
	"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Subject: [PATCH 1/5] user-manual: update for new default --track behavior
Date: Mon,  6 Aug 2007 00:33:58 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <24774.838719941$1186374891@news.gmane.org> (raw)
Message-ID: <0eb4f7cdf85273c88feb95c677a808cee9cfd859.1186373089.git.bfields@pig.linuxdev.us.dell.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <11863748422001-git-send-email->

From: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@pig.linuxdev.us.dell.com>

Update documentation to reflect the --track default.

That change seems to have happened in the 1.5.3 -rc's, so bump the "for
version x.y.z or newer" warning as well.

Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
---
 Documentation/user-manual.txt |   23 +++++++++--------------
 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/user-manual.txt b/Documentation/user-manual.txt
index 0071cd0..c0820e9 100644
--- a/Documentation/user-manual.txt
+++ b/Documentation/user-manual.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-Git User's Manual (for version 1.5.1 or newer)
+Git User's Manual (for version 1.5.3 or newer)
 ______________________________________________
 
 
@@ -1667,24 +1667,19 @@ one step:
 $ git pull origin master
 -------------------------------------------------
 
-In fact, "origin" is normally the default repository to pull from,
-and the default branch is normally the HEAD of the remote repository,
-so often you can accomplish the above with just
+In fact, if you have "master" checked out, then by default "git pull"
+merges from the HEAD branch of the origin repository.  So often you can
+accomplish the above with just a simple
 
 -------------------------------------------------
 $ git pull
 -------------------------------------------------
 
-See the descriptions of the branch.<name>.remote and branch.<name>.merge
-options in gitlink:git-config[1] to learn how to control these defaults
-depending on the current branch.  Also note that the --track option to
-gitlink:git-branch[1] and gitlink:git-checkout[1] can be used to
-automatically set the default remote branch to pull from at the time
-that a branch is created:
-
--------------------------------------------------
-$ git checkout --track -b maint origin/maint
--------------------------------------------------
+More generally, a branch that is created from a remote branch will pull
+by default from that branch.  See the descriptions of the
+branch.<name>.remote and branch.<name>.merge options in
+gitlink:git-config[1], and the discussion of the --track option in
+gitlink:git-checkout[1], to learn how to control these defaults.
 
 In addition to saving you keystrokes, "git pull" also helps you by
 producing a default commit message documenting the branch and
-- 
1.5.3.GIT

       reply	other threads:[~2007-08-06  4:34 UTC|newest]

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2007-08-06  4:33     ` [PATCH 2/5] user-manual: mention git stash J. Bruce Fields
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2007-08-06  4:34     ` [PATCH 3/5] user-manual: mention git-gui J. Bruce Fields
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2007-08-06  4:34     ` [PATCH 4/5] documentation: use the word "index" in the git-add manual page J. Bruce Fields
     [not found]   ` <d30e77a3798bf9ccaec1efc5f2c7f01d47c35c5c.1186373089.git.bfields@pig.linuxdev.us.dell.com>
2007-08-06  4:34     ` [PATCH 5/5] documentation: use the word "index" in the git-commit man page J. Bruce Fields

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