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| author |  Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2017-10-23 14:39:08 +0900 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2017-10-23 14:39:08 +0900 |
| commit | 9fc7bc656858ef1b2d8f18856af59e23cda489d8 (patch) | |
| tree | 53a5b3cd5e8de860d14d6bb17aa519da96b71914 | |
| parent | Merge branch 'jk/write-in-full-fix' into maint (diff) | |
| parent | fetch doc: src side of refspec could be full SHA-1 (diff) | |
| download | tgif-9fc7bc656858ef1b2d8f18856af59e23cda489d8.tar.xz | |
Merge branch 'jc/fetch-refspec-doc-update' into maint
"git fetch <there> <src>:<dst>" allows an object name on the <src>
side when the other side accepts such a request since Git v2.5, but
the documentation was left stale.
* jc/fetch-refspec-doc-update:
fetch doc: src side of refspec could be full SHA-1
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/pull-fetch-param.txt | 6 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/pull-fetch-param.txt b/Documentation/pull-fetch-param.txt index 1ebbf1d738..c579793af5 100644 --- a/Documentation/pull-fetch-param.txt +++ b/Documentation/pull-fetch-param.txt @@ -23,9 +23,11 @@ ifdef::git-pull[] endif::git-pull[] + The format of a <refspec> parameter is an optional plus -`+`, followed by the source ref <src>, followed +`+`, followed by the source <src>, followed by a colon `:`, followed by the destination ref <dst>. -The colon can be omitted when <dst> is empty. +The colon can be omitted when <dst> is empty. <src> is +typically a ref, but it can also be a fully spelled hex object +name. + `tag <tag>` means the same as `refs/tags/<tag>:refs/tags/<tag>`; it requests fetching everything up to the given tag. |