Tom Lambda venit, vidit, dixit 24.06.2009 18:47: > > 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. Well, the first line of git-pull's man page says: Runs git-fetch with the given parameters, and calls git-merge to merge the retrieved head(s) into the current branch. So I can't help but call your surprise somewhat unjustified ;) Michael -- 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