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diff --git a/Documentation/git-pull.txt b/Documentation/git-pull.txt index 0f18ec891a..6ef8d599d3 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-pull.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-pull.txt @@ -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 |