"Philip Oakley" <philipoakley@xxxxxxx> writes: >> This actually is not about --no-ff but about --no-tags. Any option >> that "pull" itself does not care about stops the command line parser >> and the remainder of the command line is fed to underlying "fetch". >> > > Should this be said within the documentation's synopsis ? > > e.g. > git pull [pull_options] [merge_options] [fetch_options [<repository> > [<refspec>…]] We certainly could do that, but I was hoping somebody would volunteer to make it easier to the end users so that they do not have to remember which one is which. The "perhaps something like this?" patch was a hint to show the first step in that preferrable direction. -- 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