From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2017 05:39:08 +0000 (+0900)
Subject: Merge branch 'jc/fetch-refspec-doc-update' into maint
X-Git-Tag: v2.14.3~2
X-Git-Url: https://git.lorimer.id.au/gitweb.git/diff_plain/9fc7bc656858ef1b2d8f18856af59e23cda489d8?hp=96c6bb566ee5354a1b07530a94d3f85055e46032

Merge branch 'jc/fetch-refspec-doc-update' into maint

"git fetch <there> <src>:<dst>" allows an object name on the <src>
side when the other side accepts such a request since Git v2.5, but
the documentation was left stale.

* jc/fetch-refspec-doc-update:
fetch doc: src side of refspec could be full SHA-1
---

diff --git a/Documentation/pull-fetch-param.txt b/Documentation/pull-fetch-param.txt
index 1ebbf1d738..c579793af5 100644
--- a/Documentation/pull-fetch-param.txt
+++ b/Documentation/pull-fetch-param.txt
@@ -23,9 +23,11 @@ ifdef::git-pull[]
 endif::git-pull[]
 +
 The format of a <refspec> parameter is an optional plus
-`+`, followed by the source ref <src>, followed
+`+`, followed by the source <src>, followed
 by a colon `:`, followed by the destination ref <dst>.
-The colon can be omitted when <dst> is empty.
+The colon can be omitted when <dst> is empty.  <src> is
+typically a ref, but it can also be a fully spelled hex object
+name.
 +
 `tag <tag>` means the same as `refs/tags/<tag>:refs/tags/<tag>`;
 it requests fetching everything up to the given tag.