From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Cc: Shourya Shukla <shouryashukla.oo@gmail.com>,
Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>,
"brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 4/4] gitfaq: fetching and pulling a repository
Date: Wed, 06 May 2020 10:19:25 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqh7wt6kwy.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABPp-BHurMUPM=NVr7N4Fvx9UccNqi-nQrFH0_vM9a96MjFzog@mail.gmail.com> (Elijah Newren's message of "Wed, 6 May 2020 09:20:02 -0700")
Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com> writes:
> Hi Shourya,
>
> On Wed, May 6, 2020 at 1:00 AM Shourya Shukla
> <shouryashukla.oo@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Add an issue in 'Common Issues' section which addresses the confusion
>> between performing a 'fetch' and a 'pull'.
>>
>> Helped-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Shourya Shukla <shouryashukla.oo@gmail.com>
>> ---
>> Documentation/gitfaq.txt | 8 ++++++++
>> 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/Documentation/gitfaq.txt b/Documentation/gitfaq.txt
>> index 5dfbb32089..53e3844374 100644
>> --- a/Documentation/gitfaq.txt
>> +++ b/Documentation/gitfaq.txt
>> @@ -255,6 +255,14 @@ way of cloning it in lesser space?::
>> presumes that the user has an always-on network connection to the
>> original repository). See linkgit:partial-clone[1].
>>
>> +[[fetching-and-pulling]]
>> +How do I know if I want to do a fetch or a pull?::
>> + A fetch stores a copy of the latest changes from the remote
>> + repository, without modifying the working tree or current branch.
>> + You can then at your leisure inspect, merge, rebase on top of, or
>> + ignore the upstream changes. A pull consists of a fetch followed
>> + immediately by either a merge or rebase. See linkgit:git-pull[1].
>
> Looks like you have a tab instead of a space between 'immediately' and 'by'.
Good eyes. Otherwise the contents of this new paragraph looks OK to
me.
There is no "git partial-clone" command, so the reference at the end
of the previous paragraph looks bogus, but that is not a fault of
this step.
Thanks.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-05-06 17:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-05-06 8:00 [PATCH v6 1/4] gitfaq: files in .gitignore are tracked Shourya Shukla
2020-05-06 8:00 ` [PATCH v6 2/4] gitfaq: changing the remote of a repository Shourya Shukla
2020-05-06 17:17 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-05-06 8:00 ` [PATCH v6 3/4] gitfaq: partial cloning " Shourya Shukla
2020-05-06 16:16 ` Elijah Newren
2020-05-06 8:00 ` [PATCH v6 4/4] gitfaq: fetching and pulling " Shourya Shukla
2020-05-06 16:20 ` Elijah Newren
2020-05-06 17:19 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
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