I did this the other day out of mild curiosity: $ git fetch $ git merge FETCH_HEAD Which did something, but not something that was at all useful. It merges in the first ref listed in FETCH_HEAD. It does not appear to be an accident that it does this, as git merge has special treatment for FETCH_HEAD to generate the merge message. Why does this behavior exist? Historical? j. -- 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