If I am in 'master' and 'bugfix' is a remote branch in 'repo' which I do not have locally yet, running: git pull repo bugfix:bugfix creates a new local branch 'bugfix' equals to 'repo/bugfix' as expected. However, it also merges 'bugfix' into 'master', that surprises me since I explicitly specify that <dst> is 'bugfix'. I know that I can get what I want by running: git fetch repo bugfix:bugfix But the git-pull behavior looks odd to me. I thought that <dst> was the current branch by default and it could be overridden by specifying it in the command line. Thank you, Tom -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/git-pull-merges-current-branch-even-when-%3Cdst%3E-is-specified-tp3149948p3149948.html Sent from the git mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html