Rene Herman <rene.herman@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > 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? There isn't any. "git pull . this_branch" is just a natural and logical consequence that you can fetch and merge a branch B from remote U with "git pull $U $B". "git merge that_branch" exists and useful because people on average merge local branches more than they fetch and merge from remote repository. -- 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
