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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Sergey Organov <sorganov@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git pull unclear manual
Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2021 17:18:45 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqv9a7emx6.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874khsqq0o.fsf@osv.gnss.ru> (Sergey Organov's message of "Wed, 03 Mar 2021 17:18:47 +0300")

Sergey Organov <sorganov@gmail.com> writes:

> Here is how "git help pull" begins:
>
> <q>
> NAME
>        git-pull - Fetch from and integrate with another repository or a local
>        branch
>
> SYNOPSIS
>        git pull [<options>] [<repository> [<refspec>...]]
> </q>
>
> From this, how do one figures how to "integrate with ... local branch"?
>
> Is "git pull" useful to integrate with a local branch at all?

Yes, you can refer to your local repository as ".", so

	git pull . another-branch

will integrate the history of your local "another-branch" into
the history of the branch you have currently checked out.



  reply	other threads:[~2021-03-04  1:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-03-03 14:18 git pull unclear manual Sergey Organov
2021-03-04  1:18 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2021-03-04 11:52   ` Sergey Organov
2021-03-04 23:24     ` Junio C Hamano
2021-03-07 18:57       ` Sergey Organov

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