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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>,
	Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH 2/4] fetch/pull doc: untangle meaning of bare <ref>
Date: Sat, 11 May 2013 18:14:25 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130511161425.GB3270@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130511161320.GA14990@sigill.intra.peff.net>

From: Thomas Rast <trast@inf.ethz.ch>

The documentation erroneously used the same wording for both fetch and
pull, stating that something will be merged even in git-fetch(1).

In addition, saying that "<ref> is equivalent to <ref>:" doesn't
really help anyone who still needs to read manpages.  Clarify what is
actually going on.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@inf.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
---
 Documentation/pull-fetch-param.txt | 11 ++++++++---
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/pull-fetch-param.txt b/Documentation/pull-fetch-param.txt
index 94a9d32..6f5ca21 100644
--- a/Documentation/pull-fetch-param.txt
+++ b/Documentation/pull-fetch-param.txt
@@ -68,6 +68,11 @@ Some short-cut notations are also supported.
 +
 * `tag <tag>` means the same as `refs/tags/<tag>:refs/tags/<tag>`;
   it requests fetching everything up to the given tag.
-* A parameter <ref> without a colon is equivalent to
-  <ref>: when pulling/fetching, so it merges <ref> into the current
-  branch without storing the remote branch anywhere locally
+ifndef::git-pull[]
+* A parameter <ref> without a colon fetches that ref into FETCH_HEAD,
+endif::git-pull[]
+ifdef::git-pull[]
+* A parameter <ref> without a colon merges <ref> into the current
+  branch,
+endif::git-pull[]
+  while not storing the branch anywhere locally.
-- 
1.8.3.rc1.2.g12db477

  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-05-11 16:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-05-11 16:13 [RFC/PATCH 0/4] update tracking refs on explicit fetch Jeff King
2013-05-11 16:14 ` [PATCH 1/4] t5510: start tracking-ref tests from a known state Jeff King
2013-05-14 22:18   ` Eric Sunshine
2013-05-11 16:14 ` Jeff King [this message]
2013-05-11 16:15 ` [PATCH 3/4] refactor "ref->merge" flag Jeff King
2013-05-11 16:16 ` [PATCH 4/4] fetch: opportunistically update tracking refs Jeff King
2013-05-12  9:15   ` Thomas Rast
2013-05-12  9:41     ` Thomas Rast
2013-05-16  3:37       ` Jeff King
2013-08-06 16:28   ` Junio C Hamano
2013-08-06 21:46     ` Jeff King
2013-08-06 22:12       ` Junio C Hamano

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