In the tutorial Alice initializes the repository, and Bob clones it. So Bob can just do a 'git pull', but Alice will need 'git pull <url> <branch>'. The note suggested that the branch parameter is not necessary, which is no longer true these days. Signed-off-by: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- The problem was reported by DanC on IRC. Documentation/gittutorial.txt | 4 +--- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/gittutorial.txt b/Documentation/gittutorial.txt index 458fafd..c5d5596 100644 --- a/Documentation/gittutorial.txt +++ b/Documentation/gittutorial.txt @@ -308,9 +308,7 @@ alice$ git pull /home/bob/myrepo master This merges the changes from Bob's "master" branch into Alice's current branch. If Alice has made her own changes in the meantime, -then she may need to manually fix any conflicts. (Note that the -"master" argument in the above command is actually unnecessary, as it -is the default.) +then she may need to manually fix any conflicts. The "pull" command thus performs two operations: it fetches changes from a remote branch, then merges them into the current branch. -- 1.6.1 -- 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
