Re: [PATCH 1/2] fetch: add missing documentation

On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 12:03 AM, Jeff King [off-list ref] wrote:

On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 09:09:22AM -0500, Felipe Contreras wrote:

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There's no mention of the 'origin' default, or the fact that the
upstream tracking branch remote is used.

Sounds like a good thing to mention.

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diff --git a/Documentation/git-fetch.txt b/Documentation/git-fetch.txt
index e08a028..7e75dc4 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-fetch.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-fetch.txt

@@ -37,6 +37,9 @@ or from several repositories at once if <group> is given and
 there is a remotes.<group> entry in the configuration file.
 (See linkgit:git-config[1]).

+When no remote is specified, by the default the `origin` remote will be used,

s/the (default the)/\1/

Right.

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+unless there's an upstream branch configured for the current branch.

Should this be "upstream remote" rather than "upstream branch"? I don't
think we should be looking at branch.*.merge at all for git-fetch.

As a general user, how do I configure the "upstream remote"?

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Felipe Contreras