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Sujay
Sujay

Reputation: 2196

What does git pull . do?

When I run it on my git repo this is what I get.

git pull .
From .
 * branch            HEAD       -> FETCH_HEAD
Current branch rel_20121207 is up to date.

But when I run just git pull it actually updates from the remote.

I would like to know what exactly happened when I ran git pull .

Upvotes: 5

Views: 784

Answers (1)

ellotheth
ellotheth

Reputation: 4523

Ha, this one's fun. git pull takes a remote name, or a file spec. You're giving it a file spec ('.' means the current directory), so it's treating your current repo like a remote, and throwing your current HEAD into FETCH_HEAD. You're pulling your repo into itself; essentially it's doing nothing.

Upvotes: 9

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