On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 7:56 PM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 03:36, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> -'git pull' <options> <repository> <refspec>... >> +'git pull' <options> <repository> <branch>... > > Wasn't it "refspec" because git-pull can take args like > "refs/remotes/origin/*:refs/heads/*", not just branch names? > Yes. Thinking about the pull as 2 operations "fetch+merge" should have alerted me to the possibility that it could update 2 branches, ... the one in the <refspec> as well as the current branch ... if they are different. Thanks, Geoff -- 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