From: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
To: Tom Lambda <tom.lambda@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git pull merges current branch even when <dst> is specified
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 10:52:24 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A433AC8.4040702@drmicha.warpmail.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1245862052581-3149948.post@n2.nabble.com>
Tom Lambda venit, vidit, dixit 24.06.2009 18:47:
>
> If I am in 'master' and 'bugfix' is a remote branch in 'repo' which I do not
> have locally yet, running:
>
> git pull repo bugfix:bugfix
>
> creates a new local branch 'bugfix' equals to 'repo/bugfix' as expected.
> However, it also merges 'bugfix' into 'master', that surprises me since I
> explicitly specify that <dst> is 'bugfix'.
>
> I know that I can get what I want by running:
>
> git fetch repo bugfix:bugfix
>
> But the git-pull behavior looks odd to me. I thought that <dst> was the
> current branch by default and it could be overridden by specifying it in the
> command line.
Well, the first line of git-pull's man page says:
Runs git-fetch with the given parameters, and calls git-merge to merge
the retrieved head(s) into the current branch.
So I can't help but call your surprise somewhat unjustified ;)
Michael
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-06-25 8:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-06-24 16:47 git pull merges current branch even when <dst> is specified Tom Lambda
2009-06-25 8:52 ` Michael J Gruber [this message]
2009-06-25 9:44 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-06-25 13:28 ` Tom Lambda
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