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diff --git a/Documentation/tutorial.txt b/Documentation/tutorial.txt index b9f737e..20a4cb1 100644 --- a/Documentation/tutorial.txt +++ b/Documentation/tutorial.txt @@ -1028,7 +1028,9 @@ multiple working trees, but disk space is cheap these days. [NOTE] You could even pull from your own repository by -giving '.' as <remote-repository> parameter to `git pull`. +giving '.' as <remote-repository> parameter to `git pull`. This +is useful when you want to merge a local branch (or more, if you +are making an Octopus) into the current branch. It is likely that you will be pulling from the same remote repository from time to time. As a short hand, you can store |