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authorJonathan Maw <jonathan.maw@codethink.co.uk>2013-09-30 15:08:10 +0100
committerJonathan Maw <jonathan.maw@codethink.co.uk>2013-09-30 15:08:10 +0100
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Merge branch 'baserock/jonathanmaw/S9007/upgrade-git' into baserock/morphbaserock/morph
Reviewed-by: Lars Wirzenius <lars.wirzenius@codethink.co.uk> Reviewed-by: Daniel Silverstone <daniel.silverstone@codethink.co.uk>
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diff --git a/Documentation/git-pull.txt b/Documentation/git-pull.txt
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@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ git-pull(1)
NAME
----
-git-pull - Fetch from and merge with another repository or a local branch
+git-pull - Fetch from and integrate with another repository or a local branch
SYNOPSIS
@@ -59,8 +59,8 @@ and a log message from the user describing the changes.
See linkgit:git-merge[1] for details, including how conflicts
are presented and handled.
-In git 1.7.0 or later, to cancel a conflicting merge, use
-`git reset --merge`. *Warning*: In older versions of git, running 'git pull'
+In Git 1.7.0 or later, to cancel a conflicting merge, use
+`git reset --merge`. *Warning*: In older versions of Git, running 'git pull'
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.
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ must be given before the options meant for 'git fetch'.
This option controls if new commits of all populated submodules should
be fetched too (see linkgit:git-config[1] and linkgit:gitmodules[5]).
That might be necessary to get the data needed for merging submodule
- commits, a feature git learned in 1.7.3. Notice that the result of a
+ commits, a feature Git learned in 1.7.3. Notice that the result of a
merge will not be checked out in the submodule, "git submodule update"
has to be called afterwards to bring the work tree up to date with the
merge result.
@@ -101,6 +101,7 @@ include::merge-options.txt[]
:git-pull: 1
+-r::
--rebase::
Rebase the current branch on top of the upstream branch after
fetching. If there is a remote-tracking branch corresponding to
@@ -110,7 +111,7 @@ include::merge-options.txt[]
+
See `pull.rebase`, `branch.<name>.rebase` and `branch.autosetuprebase` in
linkgit:git-config[1] if you want to make `git pull` always use
-`{litdd}rebase` instead of merging.
+`--rebase` instead of merging.
+
[NOTE]
This is a potentially _dangerous_ mode of operation.
@@ -217,7 +218,7 @@ $ git merge origin/next
------------------------------------------------
-If you tried a pull which resulted in a complex conflicts and
+If you tried a pull which resulted in complex conflicts and
would want to start over, you can recover with 'git reset'.
@@ -227,7 +228,7 @@ Using --recurse-submodules can only fetch new commits in already checked
out submodules right now. When e.g. upstream added a new submodule in the
just fetched commits of the superproject the submodule itself can not be
fetched, making it impossible to check out that submodule later without
-having to do a fetch again. This is expected to be fixed in a future git
+having to do a fetch again. This is expected to be fixed in a future Git
version.
SEE ALSO