The text made it sound as if the leading plus is the only thing that is optional, and forgot that <lhs> is the same as <lhs>:, i.e. fetch it and do not store anywhere. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/pull-fetch-param.txt | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/Documentation/pull-fetch-param.txt b/Documentation/pull-fetch-param.txt index ea4c5a6..27cfd5c 100644 --- a/Documentation/pull-fetch-param.txt +++ b/Documentation/pull-fetch-param.txt @@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ endif::git-pull[] The format of a <refspec> parameter is an optional plus `+`, followed by the source ref <src>, followed by a colon `:`, followed by the destination ref <dst>. + The colon can be omitted when <dst> is empty. + The remote ref that matches <src> is fetched, and if <dst> is not empty string, the local -- 2.0.0-479-g59ac8f9 -- 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