Re: [PATCH v6 4/4] gitfaq: fetching and pulling a repository

Elijah Newren [off-list ref] writes:

Hi Shourya,

On Wed, May 6, 2020 at 1:00 AM Shourya Shukla
[off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

Add an issue in 'Common Issues' section which addresses the confusion
between performing a 'fetch' and a 'pull'.

Helped-by: Elijah Newren [off-list ref]
Signed-off-by: Shourya Shukla <redacted>
---
 Documentation/gitfaq.txt | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/gitfaq.txt b/Documentation/gitfaq.txt
index 5dfbb32089..53e3844374 100644
--- a/Documentation/gitfaq.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitfaq.txt

@@ -255,6 +255,14 @@ way of cloning it in lesser space?::
        presumes that the user has an always-on network connection to the
        original repository).  See linkgit:partial-clone[1].

+[[fetching-and-pulling]]
+How do I know if I want to do a fetch or a pull?::
+       A fetch stores a copy of the latest changes from the remote
+       repository, without modifying the working tree or current branch.
+       You can then at your leisure inspect, merge, rebase on top of, or
+       ignore the upstream changes.  A pull consists of a fetch followed
+       immediately     by either a merge or rebase.  See linkgit:git-pull[1].

Looks like you have a tab instead of a space between 'immediately' and 'by'.

Good eyes.  Otherwise the contents of this new paragraph looks OK to
me.

There is no "git partial-clone" command, so the reference at the end
of the previous paragraph looks bogus, but that is not a fault of
this step.

Thanks.