Thank you for the explanation. So specifying :<dst> in git-pull does not seem that useful now to me, since one has to checkout the <dst> branch anyway to keep other branches unaltered. Thanks again, Tom Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > > To explain why this is so: Merging is an operation that requires a working > directory, as merge conflicts can happen. That is why merging is only > possible locally, and only into the current branch. > > -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/git-pull-merges-current-branch-even-when-%3Cdst%3E-is-specified-tp3149948p3155010.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