This merges the changes from Bob's "master" branch into Alice's
current branch. If Alice has made her own changes in the meantime,
-then she may need to manually fix any conflicts. (Note that the
-"master" argument in the above command is actually unnecessary, as it
-is the default.)
+then she may need to manually fix any conflicts.
The "pull" command thus performs two operations: it fetches changes
from a remote branch, then merges them into the current branch.
------------------------------------------------
This operation is safe even if Alice has uncommitted local changes.
-The range notation HEAD..FETCH_HEAD" means "show everything that is reachable
-from the FETCH_HEAD but exclude anything that is reachable from HEAD.
+The range notation "HEAD..FETCH_HEAD" means "show everything that is reachable
+from the FETCH_HEAD but exclude anything that is reachable from HEAD".
Alice already knows everything that leads to her current state (HEAD),
-and reviewing what Bob has in his state (FETCH_HEAD) that she has not
-seen with this command
+and reviews what Bob has in his state (FETCH_HEAD) that she has not
+seen with this command.
If Alice wants to visualize what Bob did since their histories forked
she can issue the following command:
alice$ git remote add bob /home/bob/myrepo
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-With this, Alice can perform the first part of the "pull" operation alone using the
-'git-fetch' command without merging them with her own branch,
-using:
+With this, Alice can perform the first part of the "pull" operation
+alone using the 'git-fetch' command without merging them with her own
+branch, using:
-------------------------------------
alice$ git fetch bob
You can also give 'git-log' a "range" of commits where the first is not
necessarily an ancestor of the second; for example, if the tips of
-the branches "stable-release" and "master" diverged from a common
+the branches "stable" and "master" diverged from a common
commit some time ago, then
-------------------------------------
-$ git log stable..experimental
+$ git log stable..master
-------------------------------------
-will list commits made in the experimental branch but not in the
+will list commits made in the master branch but not in the
stable branch, while
-------------------------------------
-$ git log experimental..stable
+$ git log master..stable
-------------------------------------
will show the list of commits made on the stable branch but not
-the experimental branch.
+the master branch.
The 'git-log' command has a weakness: it must present commits in a
list. When the history has lines of development that diverged and
smart enough to perform a close-to-optimal search even in the
case of complex non-linear history with lots of merged branches.
+ * linkgit:gitworkflows[7]: Gives an overview of recommended
+ workflows.
+
* link:everyday.html[Everyday GIT with 20 Commands Or So]
* linkgit:gitcvs-migration[7]: Git for CVS users.
linkgit:gitcore-tutorial[7],
linkgit:gitglossary[7],
linkgit:git-help[1],
+linkgit:gitworkflows[7],
link:everyday.html[Everyday git],
link:user-manual.html[The Git User's Manual]