[PATCH] Document "curl" requirements.

diff --git a/Documentation/tutorial.txt b/Documentation/tutorial.txt
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@@ -810,6 +810,34 @@ pull from:
   course, you will pay the price of more disk usage to hold
   multiple working trees, but disk space is cheap these days.  ]
 
+It is likely that you will be pulling from the same remote
+repository from time to time.  As a short hand, you can store
+the remote repository URL in a file under .git/branches/
+directory, like this:
+
+       mkdir -p .git/branches
+       echo rsync://kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git/ \
+           >.git/branches/linus
+
+and use the filenae to "git pull" instead of the full URL.
+The contents of a file under .git/branches can even be a prefix
+of a full URL, like this:
+
+       echo rsync://kernel.org/pub/.../jgarzik/
+               >.git/branches/jgarzik
+
+Examples.
+
+       (1) git pull linus
+       (2) git pull linus tag v0.99.1
+       (3) git pull jgarzik/netdev-2.6.git/ e100
+
+the above are equivalent to:
+
+       (1) git pull rsync://kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git/ HEAD
+       (2) git pull rsync://kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git/ tag v0.99.1
+       (3) git pull rsync://kernel.org/pub/.../jgarzik/netdev-2.6.git e100
+
 
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