1git-pull(1) 2=========== 3 4NAME 5---- 6git-pull - Pull and merge from another repository. 7 8 9SYNOPSIS 10-------- 11'git-pull' <repository> <refspec>... 12 13 14DESCRIPTION 15----------- 16Runs 'git-fetch' with the given parameters. 17 18When only one ref is downloaded, runs 'git resolve' to merge it 19into the local HEAD. Otherwise uses 'git octopus' to merge them 20into the local HEAD. 21 22Note that you can use '.' (current directory) as the 23<repository> to pull from the local repository -- this is useful 24when merging local branches into the current branch. 25 26OPTIONS 27------- 28include::pull-fetch-param.txt[] 29 30-a, \--append:: 31 Append ref names and object names of fetched refs to the 32 existing contents of $GIT_DIR/FETCH_HEAD. Without this 33 option old data in $GIT_DIR/FETCH_HEAD will be overwritten. 34 35Author 36------ 37Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> 38and Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> 39 40Documentation 41-------------- 42Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>. 43 44GIT 45--- 46Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite 47