<repository> to pull from the local repository -- this is useful
when merging local branches into the current branch.
+
OPTIONS
-------
+include::merge-options.txt[]
+
+include::fetch-options.txt[]
+
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.
-
-include::merge-pull-opts.txt[]
-
-
-MERGE STRATEGIES
-----------------
-
-resolve::
- This can only resolve two heads (i.e. the current branch
- and another branch you pulled from) using 3-way merge
- algorithm. It tries to carefully detect criss-cross
- merge ambiguities and is considered generally safe and
- fast. This is the default merge strategy when pulling
- one branch.
-
-recursive::
- This can only resolve two heads using 3-way merge
- algorithm. When there are more than one common
- ancestors that can be used for 3-way merge, it creates a
- merged tree of the common ancestores and uses that as
- the reference tree for the 3-way merge. This has been
- reported to result in fewer merge conflicts without
- causing mis-merges by tests done on actual merge commits
- taken from Linux 2.6 kernel development history.
- Additionally this can detect and handle merges involving
- renames.
-
-octopus::
- This resolves more than two-head case, but refuses to do
- complex merge that needs manual resolution. It is
- primarily meant to be used for bundling topic branch
- heads together. This is the default merge strategy when
- pulling more than one branch.
-
-ours::
- This resolves any number of heads, but the result of the
- merge is always the current branch head. It is meant to
- be used to supersede old development history of side
- branches.
+include::merge-strategies.txt[]
EXAMPLES
$ git pull . origin
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+
-Here, a typical `$GIT_DIR/remotes/origin` file from a
+Here, a typical `.git/remotes/origin` file from a
`git-clone` operation is used in combination with
command line options to `git-fetch` to first update
multiple branches of the local repository and then
all the necessary objects.
-Pull of multiple branches from one repository using `$GIT_DIR/remotes` file::
+Pull of multiple branches from one repository using `.git/remotes` file::
+
------------------------------------------------
$ cat .git/remotes/origin
$ git pull origin
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+
-Here, a typical `$GIT_DIR/remotes/origin` file from a
+Here, a typical `.git/remotes/origin` file from a
`git-clone` operation has been hand-modified to include
the branch-mapping of additional remote and local
heads directly. A single `git-pull` operation while