into the local HEAD. Otherwise uses 'git octopus' to merge them
into the local HEAD.
+Note that you can use '.' (current directory) as the
+<repository> to pull from the local repository -- this is useful
+when merging local branches into the current branch.
OPTIONS
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include::pull-fetch-param.txt[]
+-a, \--append::
+ Append ref names and object names of fetched refs to the
+ existing contents of $GIT_DIR/FETCH_HEAD. Without this
+ option old data in $GIT_DIR/FETCH_HEAD will be overwritten.
Author
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