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diff --git a/Documentation/pull-fetch-param.txt b/Documentation/pull-fetch-param.txt index 41474c5..40f8687 100644 --- a/Documentation/pull-fetch-param.txt +++ b/Documentation/pull-fetch-param.txt @@ -36,19 +36,6 @@ in a repository with this behavior; the pulling user simply must know this is the expected usage pattern for a branch. + [NOTE] -You never do your own development on branches that appear -on the right hand side of a <refspec> colon on `Pull:` lines; -they are to be updated by 'git fetch'. If you intend to do -development derived from a remote branch `B`, have a `Pull:` -line to track it (i.e. `Pull: B:remote-B`), and have a separate -branch `my-B` to do your development on top of it. The latter -is created by `git branch my-B remote-B` (or its equivalent `git -checkout -b my-B remote-B`). Run `git fetch` to keep track of -the progress of the remote side, and when you see something new -on the remote branch, merge it into your development branch with -`git pull . remote-B`, while you are on `my-B` branch. -+ -[NOTE] There is a difference between listing multiple <refspec> directly on 'git pull' command line and having multiple `Pull:` <refspec> lines for a <repository> and running |