Re: Question about "git pull --rebase"

Francis Moreau schreef:

Looks like you did :)

I've been somehow confused by the git-pull man page, which says:

  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

So I thought that both of the commands were equivalent for 'git pull
--rebase'.

Thanks for the explanation.

Ah that part.

It means that
$ git pull --rebase origin master

means the same as:
$ git pull --rebase origin master:
(note extra colon at the end)

But not as:
$ git pull --rebase origin master:foo

It means that, when you give a refspec without a colon, it is the same 
as the refspec with the colon and without the right side.