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diff --git a/Documentation/git-pull.txt b/Documentation/git-pull.txt index 4470e4b574..e414185f5a 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-pull.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-pull.txt @@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ with uncommitted changes is discouraged: while possible, it leaves you in a state that may be hard to back out of in the case of a conflict. If any of the remote changes overlap with local uncommitted changes, -the merge will be automatically cancelled and the work tree untouched. +the merge will be automatically canceled and the work tree untouched. It is generally best to get any local changes in working order before pulling or stash them away with linkgit:git-stash[1]. @@ -159,15 +159,15 @@ present while on branch `<name>`, that value is used instead of In order to determine what URL to use to fetch from, the value of the configuration `remote.<origin>.url` is consulted -and if there is not any such variable, the value on `URL: ` line -in `$GIT_DIR/remotes/<origin>` file is used. +and if there is not any such variable, the value on the `URL:` line +in `$GIT_DIR/remotes/<origin>` is used. In order to determine what remote branches to fetch (and optionally store in the remote-tracking branches) when the command is run without any refspec parameters on the command line, values of the configuration variable `remote.<origin>.fetch` are consulted, and if there aren't any, `$GIT_DIR/remotes/<origin>` -file is consulted and its `Pull: ` lines are used. +is consulted and its `Pull:` lines are used. In addition to the refspec formats described in the OPTIONS section, you can have a globbing refspec that looks like this: @@ -210,7 +210,8 @@ EXAMPLES current branch: + ------------------------------------------------ -$ git pull, git pull origin +$ git pull +$ git pull origin ------------------------------------------------ + Normally the branch merged in is the HEAD of the remote repository, |