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| author | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2017-10-19 14:45:44 +0900 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2017-10-19 14:45:45 +0900 |
| commit | 39a2aeacc5c606b6b9a4c5b8397b02c35c38ae5f (patch) | |
| tree | 47b1fda2db24f9ae83b56aea093ece3a1ece7a0c | |
| parent | 9f8468be43df74665bfd9fd925d8ab6fc74f963f (diff) | |
| parent | 83558a412afa21e5eef1d97705204b8fb2c7a6f2 (diff) | |
| download | git-39a2aeacc5c606b6b9a4c5b8397b02c35c38ae5f.tar.gz | |
Merge branch 'jc/fetch-refspec-doc-update'
"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
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/pull-fetch-param.txt | 6 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
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. |