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| <h1> | |
| git-pull(1) Manual Page | |
| </h1> | |
| <h2>NAME</h2> | |
| <div class="sectionbody"> | |
| <p>git-pull - | |
| Fetch from and merge with another repository or a local branch | |
| </p> | |
| </div> | |
| </div> | |
| <div id="content"> | |
| <h2 id="_synopsis">SYNOPSIS</h2> | |
| <div class="sectionbody"> | |
| <div class="verseblock"> | |
| <div class="verseblock-content"><em>git pull</em> [options] [<repository> [<refspec>…]]</div> | |
| <div class="verseblock-attribution"> | |
| </div></div> | |
| </div> | |
| <h2 id="_description">DESCRIPTION</h2> | |
| <div class="sectionbody"> | |
| <div class="paragraph"><p>Incorporates changes from a remote repository into the current | |
| branch. In its default mode, <tt>git pull</tt> is shorthand for | |
| <tt>git fetch</tt> followed by <tt>git merge FETCH_HEAD</tt>.</p></div> | |
| <div class="paragraph"><p>More precisely, <em>git pull</em> runs <em>git fetch</em> with the given | |
| parameters and calls <em>git merge</em> to merge the retrieved branch | |
| heads into the current branch. | |
| With <tt>--rebase</tt>, it runs <em>git rebase</em> instead of <em>git merge</em>.</p></div> | |
| <div class="paragraph"><p><repository> should be the name of a remote repository as | |
| passed to <a href="git-fetch.html">git-fetch(1)</a>. <refspec> can name an | |
| arbitrary remote ref (for example, the name of a tag) or even | |
| a collection of refs with corresponding remote-tracking branches | |
| (e.g., refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*), | |
| but usually it is the name of a branch in the remote repository.</p></div> | |
| <div class="paragraph"><p>Default values for <repository> and <branch> are read from the | |
| "remote" and "merge" configuration for the current branch | |
| as set by <a href="git-branch.html">git-branch(1)</a> <tt>--track</tt>.</p></div> | |
| <div class="paragraph"><p>Assume the following history exists and the current branch is | |
| "<tt>master</tt>":</p></div> | |
| <div class="listingblock"> | |
| <div class="content"> | |
| <pre><tt> A---B---C master on origin | |
| / | |
| D---E---F---G master</tt></pre> | |
| </div></div> | |
| <div class="paragraph"><p>Then "<tt>git pull</tt>" will fetch and replay the changes from the remote | |
| <tt>master</tt> branch since it diverged from the local <tt>master</tt> (i.e., <tt>E</tt>) | |
| until its current commit (<tt>C</tt>) on top of <tt>master</tt> and record the | |
| result in a new commit along with the names of the two parent commits | |
| and a log message from the user describing the changes.</p></div> | |
| <div class="listingblock"> | |
| <div class="content"> | |
| <pre><tt> A---B---C remotes/origin/master | |
| / \ | |
| D---E---F---G---H master</tt></pre> | |
| </div></div> | |
| <div class="paragraph"><p>See <a href="git-merge.html">git-merge(1)</a> for details, including how conflicts | |
| are presented and handled.</p></div> | |
| <div class="paragraph"><p>In git 1.7.0 or later, to cancel a conflicting merge, use | |
| <tt>git reset --merge</tt>. <strong>Warning</strong>: In older versions of git, running <em>git pull</em> | |
| with uncommitted changes is discouraged: while possible, it leaves you | |
| in a state that may be hard to back out of in the case of a conflict.</p></div> | |
| <div class="paragraph"><p>If any of the remote changes overlap with local uncommitted changes, | |
| the merge will be automatically cancelled and the work tree untouched. | |
| It is generally best to get any local changes in working order before | |
| pulling or stash them away with <a href="git-stash.html">git-stash(1)</a>.</p></div> | |
| </div> | |
| <h2 id="_options">OPTIONS</h2> | |
| <div class="sectionbody"> | |
| <div class="paragraph"><p>Options meant for <em>git pull</em> itself and the underlying <em>git merge</em> | |
| must be given before the options meant for <em>git fetch</em>.</p></div> | |
| <div class="dlist"><dl> | |
| <dt class="hdlist1"> | |
| -q | |
| </dt> | |
| <dt class="hdlist1"> | |
| --quiet | |
| </dt> | |
| <dd> | |
| <p> | |
| This is passed to both underlying git-fetch to squelch reporting of | |
| during transfer, and underlying git-merge to squelch output during | |
| merging. | |
| </p> | |
| </dd> | |
| <dt class="hdlist1"> | |
| -v | |
| </dt> | |
| <dt class="hdlist1"> | |
| --verbose | |
| </dt> | |
| <dd> | |
| <p> | |
| Pass --verbose to git-fetch and git-merge. | |
| </p> | |
| </dd> | |
| <dt class="hdlist1"> | |
| --[no-]recurse-submodules[=yes|on-demand|no] | |
| </dt> | |
| <dd> | |
| <p> | |
| This option controls if new commits of all populated submodules should | |
| be fetched too (see <a href="git-config.html">git-config(1)</a> and <a href="gitmodules.html">gitmodules(5)</a>). | |
| That might be necessary to get the data needed for merging submodule | |
| commits, a feature git learned in 1.7.3. Notice that the result of a | |
| merge will not be checked out in the submodule, "git submodule update" | |
| has to be called afterwards to bring the work tree up to date with the | |
| merge result. | |
| </p> | |
| </dd> | |
| </dl></div> | |
| <h3 id="_options_related_to_merging">Options related to merging</h3><div style="clear:left"></div> | |
| <div class="dlist"><dl> | |
| <dt class="hdlist1"> | |
| --commit | |
| </dt> | |
| <dt class="hdlist1"> | |
| --no-commit | |
| </dt> | |
| <dd> | |
| <p> | |
| Perform the merge and commit the result. This option can | |
| be used to override --no-commit. | |
| </p> | |
| <div class="paragraph"><p>With --no-commit perform the merge but pretend the merge | |
| failed and do not autocommit, to give the user a chance to | |
| inspect and further tweak the merge result before committing.</p></div> | |
| </dd> | |
| <dt class="hdlist1"> | |
| --edit | |
| </dt> | |
| <dt class="hdlist1"> | |
| --no-edit | |
| </dt> | |
| <dd> | |
| <p> | |
| Invoke an editor before committing successful mechanical merge to | |
| further edit the auto-generated merge message, so that the user | |
| can explain and justify the merge. The <tt>--no-edit</tt> option can be | |
| used to accept the auto-generated message (this is generally | |
| discouraged). The <tt>--edit</tt> option is still useful if you are | |
| giving a draft message with the <tt>-m</tt> option from the command line | |
| and want to edit it in the editor. | |
| </p> | |
| <div class="paragraph"><p>Older scripts may depend on the historical behaviour of not allowing the | |
| user to edit the merge log message. They will see an editor opened when | |
| they run <tt>git merge</tt>. To make it easier to adjust such scripts to the | |
| updated behaviour, the environment variable <tt>GIT_MERGE_AUTOEDIT</tt> can be | |
| set to <tt>no</tt> at the beginning of them.</p></div> | |
| </dd> | |
| <dt class="hdlist1"> | |
| --ff | |
| </dt> | |
| <dd> | |
| <p> | |
| When the merge resolves as a fast-forward, only update the branch | |
| pointer, without creating a merge commit. This is the default | |
| behavior. | |
| </p> | |
| </dd> | |
| <dt class="hdlist1"> | |
| --no-ff | |
| </dt> | |
| <dd> | |
| <p> | |
| Create a merge commit even when the merge resolves as a | |
| fast-forward. | |
| </p> | |
| </dd> | |
| <dt class="hdlist1"> | |
| --ff-only | |
| </dt> | |
| <dd> | |
| <p> | |
| Refuse to merge and exit with a non-zero status unless the | |
| current <tt>HEAD</tt> is already up-to-date or the merge can be | |
| resolved as a fast-forward. | |
| </p> | |
| </dd> | |
| <dt class="hdlist1"> | |
| --log[=<n>] | |
| </dt> | |
| <dt class="hdlist1"> | |
| --no-log | |
| </dt> | |
| <dd> | |
| <p> | |
| In addition to branch names, populate the log message with | |
| one-line descriptions from at most <n> actual commits that are being | |
| merged. See also <a href="git-fmt-merge-msg.html">git-fmt-merge-msg(1)</a>. | |
| </p> | |
| <div class="paragraph"><p>With --no-log do not list one-line descriptions from the | |
| actual commits being merged.</p></div> | |
| </dd> | |
| <dt class="hdlist1"> | |
| --stat | |
| </dt> | |
| <dt class="hdlist1"> | |
| -n | |
| </dt> | |
| <dt class="hdlist1"> | |
| --no-stat | |
| </dt> | |
| <dd> | |
| <p> | |
| Show a diffstat at the end of the merge. The diffstat is also | |
| controlled by the configuration option merge.stat. | |
| </p> | |
| <div class="paragraph"><p>With -n or --no-stat do not show a diffstat at the end of the | |
| merge.</p></div> | |
| </dd> | |
| <dt class="hdlist1"> | |
| --squash | |
| </dt> | |
| <dt class="hdlist1"> | |
| --no-squash | |
| </dt> | |
| <dd> | |
| <p> | |
| Produce the working tree and index state as if a real | |
| merge happened (except for the merge information), | |
| but do not actually make a commit or | |
| move the <tt>HEAD</tt>, nor record <tt>$GIT_DIR/MERGE_HEAD</tt> to | |
| cause the next <tt>git commit</tt> command to create a merge | |
| commit. This allows you to create a single commit on | |
| top of the current branch whose effect is the same as | |
| merging another branch (or more in case of an octopus). | |
| </p> | |
| <div class="paragraph"><p>With --no-squash perform the merge and commit the result. This | |
| option can be used to override --squash.</p></div> | |
| </dd> | |
| <dt class="hdlist1"> | |
| -s <strategy> | |
| </dt> | |
| <dt class="hdlist1"> | |
| --strategy=<strategy> | |
| </dt> | |
| <dd> | |
| <p> | |
| Use the given merge strategy; can be supplied more than | |
| once to specify them in the order they should be tried. | |
| If there is no <tt>-s</tt> option, a built-in list of strategies | |
| is used instead (<em>git merge-recursive</em> when merging a single | |
| head, <em>git merge-octopus</em> otherwise). | |
| </p> | |
| </dd> | |
| <dt class="hdlist1"> | |
| -X <option> | |
| </dt> | |
| <dt class="hdlist1"> | |
| --strategy-option=<option> | |
| </dt> | |
| <dd> | |
| <p> | |
| Pass merge strategy specific option through to the merge | |
| strategy. | |
| </p> | |
| </dd> | |
| <dt class="hdlist1"> | |
| --summary | |
| </dt> | |
| <dt class="hdlist1"> | |
| --no-summary | |
| </dt> | |
| <dd> | |
| <p> | |
| Synonyms to --stat and --no-stat; these are deprecated and will be | |
| removed in the future. | |
| </p> | |
| </dd> | |
| <dt class="hdlist1"> | |
| -q | |
| </dt> | |
| <dt class="hdlist1"> | |
| --quiet | |
| </dt> | |
| <dd> | |
| <p> | |
| Operate quietly. Implies --no-progress. | |
| </p> | |
| </dd> | |
| <dt class="hdlist1"> | |
| -v | |
| </dt> | |
| <dt class="hdlist1"> | |
| --verbose | |
| </dt> | |
| <dd> | |
| <p> | |
| Be verbose. | |
| </p> | |
| </dd> | |
| <dt class="hdlist1"> | |
| --progress | |
| </dt> | |
| <dt class="hdlist1"> | |
| --no-progress | |
| </dt> | |
| <dd> | |
| <p> | |
| Turn progress on/off explicitly. If neither is specified, | |
| progress is shown if standard error is connected to a terminal. | |
| Note that not all merge strategies may support progress | |
| reporting. | |
| </p> | |
| </dd> | |
| </dl></div> | |
| <div class="dlist"><dl> | |
| <dt class="hdlist1"> | |
| --rebase | |
| </dt> | |
| <dd> | |
| <p> | |
| Rebase the current branch on top of the upstream branch after | |
| fetching. If there is a remote-tracking branch corresponding to | |
| the upstream branch and the upstream branch was rebased since last | |
| fetched, the rebase uses that information to avoid rebasing | |
| non-local changes. | |
| </p> | |
| <div class="paragraph"><p>See <tt>pull.rebase</tt>, <tt>branch.<name>.rebase</tt> and <tt>branch.autosetuprebase</tt> in | |
| <a href="git-config.html">git-config(1)</a> if you want to make <tt>git pull</tt> always use | |
| <tt>--rebase</tt> instead of merging.</p></div> | |
| <div class="admonitionblock"> | |
| <table><tr> | |
| <td class="icon"> | |
| <div class="title">Note</div> | |
| </td> | |
| <td class="content">This is a potentially <em>dangerous</em> mode of operation. | |
| It rewrites history, which does not bode well when you | |
| published that history already. Do <strong>not</strong> use this option | |
| unless you have read <a href="git-rebase.html">git-rebase(1)</a> carefully.</td> | |
| </tr></table> | |
| </div> | |
| </dd> | |
| <dt class="hdlist1"> | |
| --no-rebase | |
| </dt> | |
| <dd> | |
| <p> | |
| Override earlier --rebase. | |
| </p> | |
| </dd> | |
| </dl></div> | |
| <h3 id="_options_related_to_fetching">Options related to fetching</h3><div style="clear:left"></div> | |
| <div class="dlist"><dl> | |
| <dt class="hdlist1"> | |
| --all | |
| </dt> | |
| <dd> | |
| <p> | |
| Fetch all remotes. | |
| </p> | |
| </dd> | |
| <dt class="hdlist1"> | |
| -a | |
| </dt> | |
| <dt class="hdlist1"> | |
| --append | |
| </dt> | |
| <dd> | |
| <p> | |
| Append ref names and object names of fetched refs to the | |
| existing contents of <tt>.git/FETCH_HEAD</tt>. Without this | |
| option old data in <tt>.git/FETCH_HEAD</tt> will be overwritten. | |
| </p> | |
| </dd> | |
| <dt class="hdlist1"> | |
| --depth=<depth> | |
| </dt> | |
| <dd> | |
| <p> | |
| Deepen the history of a <em>shallow</em> repository created by | |
| <tt>git clone</tt> with <tt>--depth=<depth></tt> option (see <a href="git-clone.html">git-clone(1)</a>) | |
| by the specified number of commits. | |
| </p> | |
| </dd> | |
| <dt class="hdlist1"> | |
| -f | |
| </dt> | |
| <dt class="hdlist1"> | |
| --force | |
| </dt> | |
| <dd> | |
| <p> | |
| When <em>git fetch</em> is used with <tt><rbranch>:<lbranch></tt> | |
| refspec, it refuses to update the local branch | |
| <tt><lbranch></tt> unless the remote branch <tt><rbranch></tt> it | |
| fetches is a descendant of <tt><lbranch></tt>. This option | |
| overrides that check. | |
| </p> | |
| </dd> | |
| <dt class="hdlist1"> | |
| -k | |
| </dt> | |
| <dt class="hdlist1"> | |
| --keep | |
| </dt> | |
| <dd> | |
| <p> | |
| Keep downloaded pack. | |
| </p> | |
| </dd> | |
| <dt class="hdlist1"> | |
| --no-tags | |
| </dt> | |
| <dd> | |
| <p> | |
| By default, tags that point at objects that are downloaded | |
| from the remote repository are fetched and stored locally. | |
| This option disables this automatic tag following. The default | |
| behavior for a remote may be specified with the remote.<name>.tagopt | |
| setting. See <a href="git-config.html">git-config(1)</a>. | |
| </p> | |
| </dd> | |
| <dt class="hdlist1"> | |
| -u | |
| </dt> | |
| <dt class="hdlist1"> | |
| --update-head-ok | |
| </dt> | |
| <dd> | |
| <p> | |
| By default <em>git fetch</em> refuses to update the head which | |
| corresponds to the current branch. This flag disables the | |
| check. This is purely for the internal use for <em>git pull</em> | |
| to communicate with <em>git fetch</em>, and unless you are | |
| implementing your own Porcelain you are not supposed to | |
| use it. | |
| </p> | |
| </dd> | |
| <dt class="hdlist1"> | |
| --upload-pack <upload-pack> | |
| </dt> | |
| <dd> | |
| <p> | |
| When given, and the repository to fetch from is handled | |
| by <em>git fetch-pack</em>, <em>--exec=<upload-pack></em> is passed to | |
| the command to specify non-default path for the command | |
| run on the other end. | |
| </p> | |
| </dd> | |
| <dt class="hdlist1"> | |
| --progress | |
| </dt> | |
| <dd> | |
| <p> | |
| Progress status is reported on the standard error stream | |
| by default when it is attached to a terminal, unless -q | |
| is specified. This flag forces progress status even if the | |
| standard error stream is not directed to a terminal. | |
| </p> | |
| </dd> | |
| <dt class="hdlist1"> | |
| <repository> | |
| </dt> | |
| <dd> | |
| <p> | |
| The "remote" repository that is the source of a fetch | |
| or pull operation. This parameter can be either a URL | |
| (see the section <a href="#URLS">GIT URLS</a> below) or the name | |
| of a remote (see the section <a href="#REMOTES">REMOTES</a> below). | |
| </p> | |
| </dd> | |
| <dt class="hdlist1"> | |
| <refspec> | |
| </dt> | |
| <dd> | |
| <p> | |
| The format of a <refspec> parameter is an optional plus | |
| <tt>+</tt>, followed by the source ref <src>, followed | |
| by a colon <tt>:</tt>, followed by the destination ref <dst>. | |
| </p> | |
| <div class="paragraph"><p>The remote ref that matches <src> | |
| is fetched, and if <dst> is not empty string, the local | |
| ref that matches it is fast-forwarded using <src>. | |
| If the optional plus <tt>+</tt> is used, the local ref | |
| is updated even if it does not result in a fast-forward | |
| update.</p></div> | |
| <div class="admonitionblock"> | |
| <table><tr> | |
| <td class="icon"> | |
| <div class="title">Note</div> | |
| </td> | |
| <td class="content">If the remote branch from which you want to pull is | |
| modified in non-linear ways such as being rewound and | |
| rebased frequently, then a pull will attempt a merge with | |
| an older version of itself, likely conflict, and fail. | |
| It is under these conditions that you would want to use | |
| the <tt>+</tt> sign to indicate non-fast-forward updates will | |
| be needed. There is currently no easy way to determine | |
| or declare that a branch will be made available in a | |
| repository with this behavior; the pulling user simply | |
| must know this is the expected usage pattern for a branch.</td> | |
| </tr></table> | |
| </div> | |
| <div class="admonitionblock"> | |
| <table><tr> | |
| <td class="icon"> | |
| <div class="title">Note</div> | |
| </td> | |
| <td class="content">You never do your own development on branches that appear | |
| on the right hand side of a <refspec> colon on <tt>Pull:</tt> lines; | |
| they are to be updated by <em>git fetch</em>. If you intend to do | |
| development derived from a remote branch <tt>B</tt>, have a <tt>Pull:</tt> | |
| line to track it (i.e. <tt>Pull: B:remote-B</tt>), and have a separate | |
| branch <tt>my-B</tt> to do your development on top of it. The latter | |
| is created by <tt>git branch my-B remote-B</tt> (or its equivalent <tt>git | |
| checkout -b my-B remote-B</tt>). Run <tt>git fetch</tt> to keep track of | |
| the progress of the remote side, and when you see something new | |
| on the remote branch, merge it into your development branch with | |
| <tt>git pull . remote-B</tt>, while you are on <tt>my-B</tt> branch.</td> | |
| </tr></table> | |
| </div> | |
| <div class="admonitionblock"> | |
| <table><tr> | |
| <td class="icon"> | |
| <div class="title">Note</div> | |
| </td> | |
| <td class="content">There is a difference between listing multiple <refspec> | |
| directly on <em>git pull</em> command line and having multiple | |
| <tt>Pull:</tt> <refspec> lines for a <repository> and running | |
| <em>git pull</em> command without any explicit <refspec> parameters. | |
| <refspec> listed explicitly on the command line are always | |
| merged into the current branch after fetching. In other words, | |
| if you list more than one remote refs, you would be making | |
| an Octopus. While <em>git pull</em> run without any explicit <refspec> | |
| parameter takes default <refspec>s from <tt>Pull:</tt> lines, it | |
| merges only the first <refspec> found into the current branch, | |
| after fetching all the remote refs. This is because making an | |
| Octopus from remote refs is rarely done, while keeping track | |
| of multiple remote heads in one-go by fetching more than one | |
| is often useful.</td> | |
| </tr></table> | |
| </div> | |
| <div class="paragraph"><p>Some short-cut notations are also supported.</p></div> | |
| <div class="ulist"><ul> | |
| <li> | |
| <p> | |
| <tt>tag <tag></tt> means the same as <tt>refs/tags/<tag>:refs/tags/<tag></tt>; | |
| it requests fetching everything up to the given tag. | |
| </p> | |
| </li> | |
| <li> | |
| <p> | |
| A parameter <ref> without a colon is equivalent to | |
| <ref>: when pulling/fetching, so it merges <ref> into the current | |
| branch without storing the remote branch anywhere locally | |
| </p> | |
| </li> | |
| </ul></div> | |
| </dd> | |
| </dl></div> | |
| </div> | |
| <h2 id="_git_urls_a_id_urls_a">GIT URLS<a id="URLS"></a></h2> | |
| <div class="sectionbody"> | |
| <div class="paragraph"><p>In general, URLs contain information about the transport protocol, the | |
| address of the remote server, and the path to the repository. | |
| Depending on the transport protocol, some of this information may be | |
| absent.</p></div> | |
| <div class="paragraph"><p>Git natively supports ssh, git, http, https, ftp, ftps, and rsync | |
| protocols. The following syntaxes may be used with them:</p></div> | |
| <div class="ulist"><ul> | |
| <li> | |
| <p> | |
| ssh://[user@]host.xz[:port]/path/to/repo.git/ | |
| </p> | |
| </li> | |
| <li> | |
| <p> | |
| git://host.xz[:port]/path/to/repo.git/ | |
| </p> | |
| </li> | |
| <li> | |
| <p> | |
| http[s]://host.xz[:port]/path/to/repo.git/ | |
| </p> | |
| </li> | |
| <li> | |
| <p> | |
| ftp[s]://host.xz[:port]/path/to/repo.git/ | |
| </p> | |
| </li> | |
| <li> | |
| <p> | |
| rsync://host.xz/path/to/repo.git/ | |
| </p> | |
| </li> | |
| </ul></div> | |
| <div class="paragraph"><p>An alternative scp-like syntax may also be used with the ssh protocol:</p></div> | |
| <div class="ulist"><ul> | |
| <li> | |
| <p> | |
| [user@]host.xz:path/to/repo.git/ | |
| </p> | |
| </li> | |
| </ul></div> | |
| <div class="paragraph"><p>The ssh and git protocols additionally support ~username expansion:</p></div> | |
| <div class="ulist"><ul> | |
| <li> | |
| <p> | |
| ssh://[user@]host.xz[:port]/~[user]/path/to/repo.git/ | |
| </p> | |
| </li> | |
| <li> | |
| <p> | |
| git://host.xz[:port]/~[user]/path/to/repo.git/ | |
| </p> | |
| </li> | |
| <li> | |
| <p> | |
| [user@]host.xz:/~[user]/path/to/repo.git/ | |
| </p> | |
| </li> | |
| </ul></div> | |
| <div class="paragraph"><p>For local repositories, also supported by git natively, the following | |
| syntaxes may be used:</p></div> | |
| <div class="ulist"><ul> | |
| <li> | |
| <p> | |
| /path/to/repo.git/ | |
| </p> | |
| </li> | |
| <li> | |
| <p> | |
| <a href="file:///path/to/repo.git/">file:///path/to/repo.git/</a> | |
| </p> | |
| </li> | |
| </ul></div> | |
| <div class="paragraph"><p>These two syntaxes are mostly equivalent, except when cloning, when | |
| the former implies --local option. See <a href="git-clone.html">git-clone(1)</a> for | |
| details.</p></div> | |
| <div class="paragraph"><p>When git doesn’t know how to handle a certain transport protocol, it | |
| attempts to use the <em>remote-<transport></em> remote helper, if one | |
| exists. To explicitly request a remote helper, the following syntax | |
| may be used:</p></div> | |
| <div class="ulist"><ul> | |
| <li> | |
| <p> | |
| <transport>::<address> | |
| </p> | |
| </li> | |
| </ul></div> | |
| <div class="paragraph"><p>where <address> may be a path, a server and path, or an arbitrary | |
| URL-like string recognized by the specific remote helper being | |
| invoked. See <a href="git-remote-helpers.html">git-remote-helpers(1)</a> for details.</p></div> | |
| <div class="paragraph"><p>If there are a large number of similarly-named remote repositories and | |
| you want to use a different format for them (such that the URLs you | |
| use will be rewritten into URLs that work), you can create a | |
| configuration section of the form:</p></div> | |
| <div class="listingblock"> | |
| <div class="content"> | |
| <pre><tt> [url "<actual url base>"] | |
| insteadOf = <other url base></tt></pre> | |
| </div></div> | |
| <div class="paragraph"><p>For example, with this:</p></div> | |
| <div class="listingblock"> | |
| <div class="content"> | |
| <pre><tt> [url "git://git.host.xz/"] | |
| insteadOf = host.xz:/path/to/ | |
| insteadOf = work:</tt></pre> | |
| </div></div> | |
| <div class="paragraph"><p>a URL like "work:repo.git" or like "host.xz:/path/to/repo.git" will be | |
| rewritten in any context that takes a URL to be "git://git.host.xz/repo.git".</p></div> | |
| <div class="paragraph"><p>If you want to rewrite URLs for push only, you can create a | |
| configuration section of the form:</p></div> | |
| <div class="listingblock"> | |
| <div class="content"> | |
| <pre><tt> [url "<actual url base>"] | |
| pushInsteadOf = <other url base></tt></pre> | |
| </div></div> | |
| <div class="paragraph"><p>For example, with this:</p></div> | |
| <div class="listingblock"> | |
| <div class="content"> | |
| <pre><tt> [url "ssh://example.org/"] | |
| pushInsteadOf = git://example.org/</tt></pre> | |
| </div></div> | |
| <div class="paragraph"><p>a URL like "git://example.org/path/to/repo.git" will be rewritten to | |
| "ssh://example.org/path/to/repo.git" for pushes, but pulls will still | |
| use the original URL.</p></div> | |
| </div> | |
| <h2 id="_remotes_a_id_remotes_a">REMOTES<a id="REMOTES"></a></h2> | |
| <div class="sectionbody"> | |
| <div class="paragraph"><p>The name of one of the following can be used instead | |
| of a URL as <tt><repository></tt> argument:</p></div> | |
| <div class="ulist"><ul> | |
| <li> | |
| <p> | |
| a remote in the git configuration file: <tt>$GIT_DIR/config</tt>, | |
| </p> | |
| </li> | |
| <li> | |
| <p> | |
| a file in the <tt>$GIT_DIR/remotes</tt> directory, or | |
| </p> | |
| </li> | |
| <li> | |
| <p> | |
| a file in the <tt>$GIT_DIR/branches</tt> directory. | |
| </p> | |
| </li> | |
| </ul></div> | |
| <div class="paragraph"><p>All of these also allow you to omit the refspec from the command line | |
| because they each contain a refspec which git will use by default.</p></div> | |
| <h3 id="_named_remote_in_configuration_file">Named remote in configuration file</h3><div style="clear:left"></div> | |
| <div class="paragraph"><p>You can choose to provide the name of a remote which you had previously | |
| configured using <a href="git-remote.html">git-remote(1)</a>, <a href="git-config.html">git-config(1)</a> | |
| or even by a manual edit to the <tt>$GIT_DIR/config</tt> file. The URL of | |
| this remote will be used to access the repository. The refspec | |
| of this remote will be used by default when you do | |
| not provide a refspec on the command line. The entry in the | |
| config file would appear like this:</p></div> | |
| <div class="listingblock"> | |
| <div class="content"> | |
| <pre><tt> [remote "<name>"] | |
| url = <url> | |
| pushurl = <pushurl> | |
| push = <refspec> | |
| fetch = <refspec></tt></pre> | |
| </div></div> | |
| <div class="paragraph"><p>The <tt><pushurl></tt> is used for pushes only. It is optional and defaults | |
| to <tt><url></tt>.</p></div> | |
| <h3 id="_named_file_in_tt_git_dir_remotes_tt">Named file in <tt>$GIT_DIR/remotes</tt></h3><div style="clear:left"></div> | |
| <div class="paragraph"><p>You can choose to provide the name of a | |
| file in <tt>$GIT_DIR/remotes</tt>. The URL | |
| in this file will be used to access the repository. The refspec | |
| in this file will be used as default when you do not | |
| provide a refspec on the command line. This file should have the | |
| following format:</p></div> | |
| <div class="listingblock"> | |
| <div class="content"> | |
| <pre><tt> URL: one of the above URL format | |
| Push: <refspec> | |
| Pull: <refspec></tt></pre> | |
| </div></div> | |
| <div class="paragraph"><p><tt>Push:</tt> lines are used by <em>git push</em> and | |
| <tt>Pull:</tt> lines are used by <em>git pull</em> and <em>git fetch</em>. | |
| Multiple <tt>Push:</tt> and <tt>Pull:</tt> lines may | |
| be specified for additional branch mappings.</p></div> | |
| <h3 id="_named_file_in_tt_git_dir_branches_tt">Named file in <tt>$GIT_DIR/branches</tt></h3><div style="clear:left"></div> | |
| <div class="paragraph"><p>You can choose to provide the name of a | |
| file in <tt>$GIT_DIR/branches</tt>. | |
| The URL in this file will be used to access the repository. | |
| This file should have the following format:</p></div> | |
| <div class="listingblock"> | |
| <div class="content"> | |
| <pre><tt> <url>#<head></tt></pre> | |
| </div></div> | |
| <div class="paragraph"><p><tt><url></tt> is required; <tt>#<head></tt> is optional.</p></div> | |
| <div class="paragraph"><p>Depending on the operation, git will use one of the following | |
| refspecs, if you don’t provide one on the command line. | |
| <tt><branch></tt> is the name of this file in <tt>$GIT_DIR/branches</tt> and | |
| <tt><head></tt> defaults to <tt>master</tt>.</p></div> | |
| <div class="paragraph"><p>git fetch uses:</p></div> | |
| <div class="listingblock"> | |
| <div class="content"> | |
| <pre><tt> refs/heads/<head>:refs/heads/<branch></tt></pre> | |
| </div></div> | |
| <div class="paragraph"><p>git push uses:</p></div> | |
| <div class="listingblock"> | |
| <div class="content"> | |
| <pre><tt> HEAD:refs/heads/<head></tt></pre> | |
| </div></div> | |
| </div> | |
| <h2 id="_merge_strategies">MERGE STRATEGIES</h2> | |
| <div class="sectionbody"> | |
| <div class="paragraph"><p>The merge mechanism (<em>git-merge</em> and <em>git-pull</em> commands) allows the | |
| backend <em>merge strategies</em> to be chosen with <tt>-s</tt> option. Some strategies | |
| can also take their own options, which can be passed by giving <tt>-X<option></tt> | |
| arguments to <em>git-merge</em> and/or <em>git-pull</em>.</p></div> | |
| <div class="dlist"><dl> | |
| <dt class="hdlist1"> | |
| resolve | |
| </dt> | |
| <dd> | |
| <p> | |
| This can only resolve two heads (i.e. the current branch | |
| and another branch you pulled from) using a 3-way merge | |
| algorithm. It tries to carefully detect criss-cross | |
| merge ambiguities and is considered generally safe and | |
| fast. | |
| </p> | |
| </dd> | |
| <dt class="hdlist1"> | |
| recursive | |
| </dt> | |
| <dd> | |
| <p> | |
| This can only resolve two heads using a 3-way merge | |
| algorithm. When there is more than one common | |
| ancestor that can be used for 3-way merge, it creates a | |
| merged tree of the common ancestors 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. This is the default merge strategy when | |
| pulling or merging one branch. | |
| </p> | |
| <div class="paragraph"><p>The <em>recursive</em> strategy can take the following options:</p></div> | |
| <div class="dlist"><dl> | |
| <dt class="hdlist1"> | |
| ours | |
| </dt> | |
| <dd> | |
| <p> | |
| This option forces conflicting hunks to be auto-resolved cleanly by | |
| favoring <em>our</em> version. Changes from the other tree that do not | |
| conflict with our side are reflected to the merge result. | |
| </p> | |
| <div class="paragraph"><p>This should not be confused with the <em>ours</em> merge strategy, which does not | |
| even look at what the other tree contains at all. It discards everything | |
| the other tree did, declaring <em>our</em> history contains all that happened in it.</p></div> | |
| </dd> | |
| <dt class="hdlist1"> | |
| theirs | |
| </dt> | |
| <dd> | |
| <p> | |
| This is opposite of <em>ours</em>. | |
| </p> | |
| </dd> | |
| <dt class="hdlist1"> | |
| patience | |
| </dt> | |
| <dd> | |
| <p> | |
| With this option, <em>merge-recursive</em> spends a little extra time | |
| to avoid mismerges that sometimes occur due to unimportant | |
| matching lines (e.g., braces from distinct functions). Use | |
| this when the branches to be merged have diverged wildly. | |
| See also <a href="git-diff.html">git-diff(1)</a> <tt>--patience</tt>. | |
| </p> | |
| </dd> | |
| <dt class="hdlist1"> | |
| ignore-space-change | |
| </dt> | |
| <dt class="hdlist1"> | |
| ignore-all-space | |
| </dt> | |
| <dt class="hdlist1"> | |
| ignore-space-at-eol | |
| </dt> | |
| <dd> | |
| <p> | |
| Treats lines with the indicated type of whitespace change as | |
| unchanged for the sake of a three-way merge. Whitespace | |
| changes mixed with other changes to a line are not ignored. | |
| See also <a href="git-diff.html">git-diff(1)</a> <tt>-b</tt>, <tt>-w</tt>, and | |
| <tt>--ignore-space-at-eol</tt>. | |
| </p> | |
| <div class="ulist"><ul> | |
| <li> | |
| <p> | |
| If <em>their</em> version only introduces whitespace changes to a line, | |
| <em>our</em> version is used; | |
| </p> | |
| </li> | |
| <li> | |
| <p> | |
| If <em>our</em> version introduces whitespace changes but <em>their</em> | |
| version includes a substantial change, <em>their</em> version is used; | |
| </p> | |
| </li> | |
| <li> | |
| <p> | |
| Otherwise, the merge proceeds in the usual way. | |
| </p> | |
| </li> | |
| </ul></div> | |
| </dd> | |
| <dt class="hdlist1"> | |
| renormalize | |
| </dt> | |
| <dd> | |
| <p> | |
| This runs a virtual check-out and check-in of all three stages | |
| of a file when resolving a three-way merge. This option is | |
| meant to be used when merging branches with different clean | |
| filters or end-of-line normalization rules. See "Merging | |
| branches with differing checkin/checkout attributes" in | |
| <a href="gitattributes.html">gitattributes(5)</a> for details. | |
| </p> | |
| </dd> | |
| <dt class="hdlist1"> | |
| no-renormalize | |
| </dt> | |
| <dd> | |
| <p> | |
| Disables the <tt>renormalize</tt> option. This overrides the | |
| <tt>merge.renormalize</tt> configuration variable. | |
| </p> | |
| </dd> | |
| <dt class="hdlist1"> | |
| rename-threshold=<n> | |
| </dt> | |
| <dd> | |
| <p> | |
| Controls the similarity threshold used for rename detection. | |
| See also <a href="git-diff.html">git-diff(1)</a> <tt>-M</tt>. | |
| </p> | |
| </dd> | |
| <dt class="hdlist1"> | |
| subtree[=<path>] | |
| </dt> | |
| <dd> | |
| <p> | |
| This option is a more advanced form of <em>subtree</em> strategy, where | |
| the strategy makes a guess on how two trees must be shifted to | |
| match with each other when merging. Instead, the specified path | |
| is prefixed (or stripped from the beginning) to make the shape of | |
| two trees to match. | |
| </p> | |
| </dd> | |
| </dl></div> | |
| </dd> | |
| <dt class="hdlist1"> | |
| octopus | |
| </dt> | |
| <dd> | |
| <p> | |
| This resolves cases with more than two heads, but refuses to do | |
| a 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 or merging more than one branch. | |
| </p> | |
| </dd> | |
| <dt class="hdlist1"> | |
| ours | |
| </dt> | |
| <dd> | |
| <p> | |
| This resolves any number of heads, but the resulting tree of the | |
| merge is always that of the current branch head, effectively | |
| ignoring all changes from all other branches. It is meant to | |
| be used to supersede old development history of side | |
| branches. Note that this is different from the -Xours option to | |
| the <em>recursive</em> merge strategy. | |
| </p> | |
| </dd> | |
| <dt class="hdlist1"> | |
| subtree | |
| </dt> | |
| <dd> | |
| <p> | |
| This is a modified recursive strategy. When merging trees A and | |
| B, if B corresponds to a subtree of A, B is first adjusted to | |
| match the tree structure of A, instead of reading the trees at | |
| the same level. This adjustment is also done to the common | |
| ancestor tree. | |
| </p> | |
| </dd> | |
| </dl></div> | |
| </div> | |
| <h2 id="_default_behaviour">DEFAULT BEHAVIOUR</h2> | |
| <div class="sectionbody"> | |
| <div class="paragraph"><p>Often people use <tt>git pull</tt> without giving any parameter. | |
| Traditionally, this has been equivalent to saying <tt>git pull | |
| origin</tt>. However, when configuration <tt>branch.<name>.remote</tt> is | |
| present while on branch <tt><name></tt>, that value is used instead of | |
| <tt>origin</tt>.</p></div> | |
| <div class="paragraph"><p>In order to determine what URL to use to fetch from, the value | |
| of the configuration <tt>remote.<origin>.url</tt> is consulted | |
| and if there is not any such variable, the value on <tt>URL: ` line | |
| in `$GIT_DIR/remotes/<origin></tt> file is used.</p></div> | |
| <div class="paragraph"><p>In order to determine what remote branches to fetch (and | |
| optionally store in the remote-tracking branches) when the command is | |
| run without any refspec parameters on the command line, values | |
| of the configuration variable <tt>remote.<origin>.fetch</tt> are | |
| consulted, and if there aren’t any, <tt>$GIT_DIR/remotes/<origin></tt> | |
| file is consulted and its `Pull: ` lines are used. | |
| In addition to the refspec formats described in the OPTIONS | |
| section, you can have a globbing refspec that looks like this:</p></div> | |
| <div class="listingblock"> | |
| <div class="content"> | |
| <pre><tt>refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*</tt></pre> | |
| </div></div> | |
| <div class="paragraph"><p>A globbing refspec must have a non-empty RHS (i.e. must store | |
| what were fetched in remote-tracking branches), and its LHS and RHS | |
| must end with <tt>/*</tt>. The above specifies that all remote | |
| branches are tracked using remote-tracking branches in | |
| <tt>refs/remotes/origin/</tt> hierarchy under the same name.</p></div> | |
| <div class="paragraph"><p>The rule to determine which remote branch to merge after | |
| fetching is a bit involved, in order not to break backward | |
| compatibility.</p></div> | |
| <div class="paragraph"><p>If explicit refspecs were given on the command | |
| line of <tt>git pull</tt>, they are all merged.</p></div> | |
| <div class="paragraph"><p>When no refspec was given on the command line, then <tt>git pull</tt> | |
| uses the refspec from the configuration or | |
| <tt>$GIT_DIR/remotes/<origin></tt>. In such cases, the following | |
| rules apply:</p></div> | |
| <div class="olist arabic"><ol class="arabic"> | |
| <li> | |
| <p> | |
| If <tt>branch.<name>.merge</tt> configuration for the current | |
| branch <tt><name></tt> exists, that is the name of the branch at the | |
| remote site that is merged. | |
| </p> | |
| </li> | |
| <li> | |
| <p> | |
| If the refspec is a globbing one, nothing is merged. | |
| </p> | |
| </li> | |
| <li> | |
| <p> | |
| Otherwise the remote branch of the first refspec is merged. | |
| </p> | |
| </li> | |
| </ol></div> | |
| </div> | |
| <h2 id="_examples">EXAMPLES</h2> | |
| <div class="sectionbody"> | |
| <div class="ulist"><ul> | |
| <li> | |
| <p> | |
| Update the remote-tracking branches for the repository | |
| you cloned from, then merge one of them into your | |
| current branch: | |
| </p> | |
| <div class="listingblock"> | |
| <div class="content"> | |
| <pre><tt>$ git pull, git pull origin</tt></pre> | |
| </div></div> | |
| <div class="paragraph"><p>Normally the branch merged in is the HEAD of the remote repository, | |
| but the choice is determined by the branch.<name>.remote and | |
| branch.<name>.merge options; see <a href="git-config.html">git-config(1)</a> for details.</p></div> | |
| </li> | |
| <li> | |
| <p> | |
| Merge into the current branch the remote branch <tt>next</tt>: | |
| </p> | |
| <div class="listingblock"> | |
| <div class="content"> | |
| <pre><tt>$ git pull origin next</tt></pre> | |
| </div></div> | |
| <div class="paragraph"><p>This leaves a copy of <tt>next</tt> temporarily in FETCH_HEAD, but | |
| does not update any remote-tracking branches. Using remote-tracking | |
| branches, the same can be done by invoking fetch and merge:</p></div> | |
| <div class="listingblock"> | |
| <div class="content"> | |
| <pre><tt>$ git fetch origin | |
| $ git merge origin/next</tt></pre> | |
| </div></div> | |
| </li> | |
| </ul></div> | |
| <div class="paragraph"><p>If you tried a pull which resulted in a complex conflicts and | |
| would want to start over, you can recover with <em>git reset</em>.</p></div> | |
| </div> | |
| <h2 id="_bugs">BUGS</h2> | |
| <div class="sectionbody"> | |
| <div class="paragraph"><p>Using --recurse-submodules can only fetch new commits in already checked | |
| out submodules right now. When e.g. upstream added a new submodule in the | |
| just fetched commits of the superproject the submodule itself can not be | |
| fetched, making it impossible to check out that submodule later without | |
| having to do a fetch again. This is expected to be fixed in a future git | |
| version.</p></div> | |
| </div> | |
| <h2 id="_see_also">SEE ALSO</h2> | |
| <div class="sectionbody"> | |
| <div class="paragraph"><p><a href="git-fetch.html">git-fetch(1)</a>, <a href="git-merge.html">git-merge(1)</a>, <a href="git-config.html">git-config(1)</a></p></div> | |
| </div> | |
| <h2 id="_git">GIT</h2> | |
| <div class="sectionbody"> | |
| <div class="paragraph"><p>Part of the <a href="git.html">git(1)</a> suite</p></div> | |
| </div> | |
| </div> | |
| <div id="footnotes"><hr /></div> | |
| <div id="footer"> | |
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