On Wed, 11 Jun 2008, Rene Herman wrote: > Good day. > > The manpages seem to be making somewhat of a point of mentioning "git pull . > <branch>" as the way to merge a local branch into the current one but a simple > "git merge <branch>" seems to work well. Is there a difference? Those manpage sections predate the existance of "git merge <branch>". If you're not planning to use git before November 2006, there's no reason to use the "git pull ." form. They should probably be replaced with more helpful examples at this point. -Daniel *This .sig left intentionally blank* -- 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
