From: J. Bruce Fields Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2007 21:18:52 +0000 (-0400) Subject: user-manual: update for new default --track behavior X-Git-Tag: v1.5.3-rc5~67^2~3 X-Git-Url: http://git.tremily.us/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=0eb4f7cdf85273c88feb95c677a808cee9cfd859;p=git.git 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 --- 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..remote and branch..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..remote and branch..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