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-rw-r--r--Documentation/user-manual.txt8
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diff --git a/Documentation/user-manual.txt b/Documentation/user-manual.txt
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@@ -1793,7 +1793,7 @@ $ git pull . branch
$ git merge branch
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-are roughly equivalent. The former is actually very commonly used.
+are roughly equivalent.
[[submitting-patches]]
Submitting patches to a project
@@ -2255,11 +2255,11 @@ commit to this branch.
$ ... patch ... test ... commit [ ... patch ... test ... commit ]*
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-When you are happy with the state of this change, you can pull it into the
+When you are happy with the state of this change, you can merge it into the
"test" branch in preparation to make it public:
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-$ git checkout test && git pull . speed-up-spinlocks
+$ git checkout test && git merge speed-up-spinlocks
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It is unlikely that you would have any conflicts here ... but you might if you
@@ -2271,7 +2271,7 @@ see the value of keeping each patch (or patch series) in its own branch. It
means that the patches can be moved into the `release` tree in any order.
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-$ git checkout release && git pull . speed-up-spinlocks
+$ git checkout release && git merge speed-up-spinlocks
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After a while, you will have a number of branches, and despite the