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 22 23OPTIONS 24------- 25include::pull-fetch-param.txt[] 26 27-a, \--append:: 28 Append ref names and object names of fetched refs to the 29 existing contents of $GIT_DIR/FETCH_HEAD. Without this 30 option old data in $GIT_DIR/FETCH_HEAD will be overwritten. 31 32Author 33------ 34Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> 35and Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> 36 37Documentation 38-------------- 39Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>. 40 41GIT 42--- 43Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite 44