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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 5/5] fetch doc: update refspec format description
Date: Thu, 29 May 2014 15:42:30 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1401403350-7122-6-git-send-email-gitster@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1401403350-7122-1-git-send-email-gitster@pobox.com>

The text made it sound as if the leading plus is the only thing that
is optional, and forgot that <lhs> is the same as <lhs>:, i.e. fetch
it and do not store anywhere.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
---
 Documentation/pull-fetch-param.txt | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/pull-fetch-param.txt b/Documentation/pull-fetch-param.txt
index ea4c5a6..27cfd5c 100644
--- a/Documentation/pull-fetch-param.txt
+++ b/Documentation/pull-fetch-param.txt
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ endif::git-pull[]
 	The format of a <refspec> parameter is an optional plus
 	`+`, followed by the source ref <src>, followed
 	by a colon `:`, followed by the destination ref <dst>.
+	The colon can be omitted when <dst> is empty.
 +
 The remote ref that matches <src>
 is fetched, and if <dst> is not empty string, the local
-- 
2.0.0-479-g59ac8f9

      parent reply	other threads:[~2014-05-29 22:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-05-29 22:42 [PATCH 0/5] Documentation updates for 'git fetch' Junio C Hamano
2014-05-29 22:42 ` [PATCH 1/5] fetch doc: update introductory part for clarity Junio C Hamano
2014-05-30 14:35   ` Marc Branchaud
2014-05-30 17:52     ` Junio C Hamano
2014-05-30 19:13       ` Marc Branchaud
2014-05-30 21:27         ` Junio C Hamano
2014-06-02 15:21       ` [PATCH] fetch doc: Move FETCH_HEAD material, and add an example Marc Branchaud
2014-06-02 18:24         ` Junio C Hamano
2014-05-29 22:42 ` [PATCH 2/5] fetch doc: update note on '+' in front of the refspec Junio C Hamano
2014-05-30 14:35   ` Marc Branchaud
2014-05-30 17:54     ` Junio C Hamano
2014-06-02 15:37       ` Marc Branchaud
2014-05-29 22:42 ` [PATCH 3/5] fetch doc: remove notes on outdated "mixed layout" Junio C Hamano
2014-05-29 22:42 ` [PATCH 4/5] fetch doc: on pulling multiple refspecs Junio C Hamano
2014-05-29 22:42 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]

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