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From: Geoff Russell <geoffrey.russell@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: git pull (Re: need advice on usage patterns)
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 20:07:19 +0930
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On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 7:56 PM, =C6var Arnfj=F6r=F0 Bjarmason
<avarab@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 03:36, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> w=
rote:
>
>> -'git pull' <options> <repository> <refspec>...
>> +'git pull' <options> <repository> <branch>...
>
> Wasn't it "refspec" because git-pull can take args like
> "refs/remotes/origin/*:refs/heads/*", not just branch names?
>

Yes.

Thinking about the pull as 2 operations "fetch+merge" should have
alerted me to the
possibility that it could update 2 branches, ... the one in the
<refspec> as well
as the current branch ... if they are different.

Thanks,

Geoff