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authorJ. Bruce Fields <bfields@pig.linuxdev.us.dell.com>2007-08-05 17:18:52 -0400
committerJ. Bruce Fields <bfields@pig.linuxdev.us.dell.com>2007-08-05 17:29:01 -0400
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user-manual: update for new default --track behavior
Update documentation to reflect the --track default. That change seems to have happened in the 1.5.3 -rc's, so bump the "for version x.y.z or newer" warning as well. Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
-rw-r--r--Documentation/user-manual.txt23
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/user-manual.txt b/Documentation/user-manual.txt
index 0071cd070..c0820e903 100644
--- a/Documentation/user-manual.txt
+++ b/Documentation/user-manual.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-Git User's Manual (for version 1.5.1 or newer)
+Git User's Manual (for version 1.5.3 or newer)
______________________________________________
@@ -1667,24 +1667,19 @@ one step:
$ git pull origin master
-------------------------------------------------
-In fact, "origin" is normally the default repository to pull from,
-and the default branch is normally the HEAD of the remote repository,
-so often you can accomplish the above with just
+In fact, if you have "master" checked out, then by default "git pull"
+merges from the HEAD branch of the origin repository. So often you can
+accomplish the above with just a simple
-------------------------------------------------
$ git pull
-------------------------------------------------
-See the descriptions of the branch.<name>.remote and branch.<name>.merge
-options in gitlink:git-config[1] to learn how to control these defaults
-depending on the current branch. Also note that the --track option to
-gitlink:git-branch[1] and gitlink:git-checkout[1] can be used to
-automatically set the default remote branch to pull from at the time
-that a branch is created:
-
--------------------------------------------------
-$ git checkout --track -b maint origin/maint
--------------------------------------------------
+More generally, a branch that is created from a remote branch will pull
+by default from that branch. See the descriptions of the
+branch.<name>.remote and branch.<name>.merge options in
+gitlink:git-config[1], and the discussion of the --track option in
+gitlink:git-checkout[1], to learn how to control these defaults.
In addition to saving you keystrokes, "git pull" also helps you by
producing a default commit message documenting the branch and