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diff --git a/Documentation/git-pull.adoc b/Documentation/git-pull.adoc index 48e924a10a..a3d248dd1d 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-pull.adoc +++ b/Documentation/git-pull.adoc @@ -27,17 +27,6 @@ and then depending on configuration options or command line flags, will call either `git rebase` or `git merge` to reconcile diverging branches. -<repository> should be the name of a remote repository as -passed to linkgit:git-fetch[1]. <refspec> can name an -arbitrary remote ref (for example, the name of a tag) or even -a collection of refs with corresponding remote-tracking branches -(e.g., refs/heads/{asterisk}:refs/remotes/origin/{asterisk}), -but usually it is the name of a branch in the remote repository. - -Default values for <repository> and <branch> are read from the -"remote" and "merge" configuration for the current branch -as set by linkgit:git-branch[1] `--track`. - Assume the following history exists and the current branch is "`master`": @@ -77,6 +66,26 @@ pulling or stash them away with linkgit:git-stash[1]. OPTIONS ------- +<repository>:: + The "remote" repository to pull from. This can be either + a URL (see the section <<URLS,GIT URLS>> below) or the name + of a remote (see the section <<REMOTES,REMOTES>> below). ++ +Defaults to the configured upstream for the current branch, or `origin`. +See <<UPSTREAM-BRANCHES,UPSTREAM BRANCHES>> below for more on how to +configure upstreams. + +<refspec>:: + Which branch or other reference(s) to fetch and integrate into the + current branch, for example `main` in `git pull origin main`. + Defaults to the configured upstream for the current branch. ++ +This can be a branch, tag, or other collection of reference(s). +See <<fetch-refspec,<refspec>>> below under "Options related to fetching" +for the full syntax, and <<DEFAULT-BEHAVIOUR,DEFAULT BEHAVIOUR>> below +for how `git pull` uses this argument to determine which remote branch +to integrate. + -q:: --quiet:: This is passed to both underlying git-fetch to squelch reporting of @@ -145,6 +154,7 @@ include::urls-remotes.adoc[] include::merge-strategies.adoc[] +[[DEFAULT-BEHAVIOUR]] DEFAULT BEHAVIOUR ----------------- |