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+git-pull(1)
+===========
+
+NAME
+----
+git-pull - Fetch from and integrate with another repository or a local branch
+
+
+SYNOPSIS
+--------
+[verse]
+'git pull' [<options>] [<repository> [<refspec>...]]
+
+
+DESCRIPTION
+-----------
+
+Incorporates changes from a remote repository into the current branch.
+If the current branch is behind the remote, then by default it will
+fast-forward the current branch to match the remote. If the current
+branch and the remote have diverged, the user needs to specify how to
+reconcile the divergent branches with `--rebase` or `--no-rebase` (or
+the corresponding configuration option in `pull.rebase`).
+
+More precisely, `git pull` runs `git fetch` with the given parameters
+and then depending on configuration options or command line flags,
+will call either `git rebase` or `git merge` to reconcile diverging
+branches.
+
+<repository> should be the name of a remote repository as
+passed to linkgit:git-fetch[1]. <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/{asterisk}:refs/remotes/origin/{asterisk}),
+but usually it is the name of a branch in the remote repository.
+
+Default values for <repository> and <branch> are read from the
+"remote" and "merge" configuration for the current branch
+as set by linkgit:git-branch[1] `--track`.
+
+Assume the following history exists and the current branch is
+"`master`":
+
+------------
+ A---B---C master on origin
+ /
+ D---E---F---G master
+ ^
+ origin/master in your repository
+------------
+
+Then "`git pull`" will fetch and replay the changes from the remote
+`master` branch since it diverged from the local `master` (i.e., `E`)
+until its current commit (`C`) on top of `master` 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.
+
+------------
+ A---B---C origin/master
+ / \
+ D---E---F---G---H master
+------------
+
+See linkgit:git-merge[1] for details, including how conflicts
+are presented and handled.
+
+In Git 1.7.0 or later, to cancel a conflicting merge, use
+`git reset --merge`. *Warning*: In older versions of Git, running 'git pull'
+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.
+
+If any of the remote changes overlap with local uncommitted changes,
+the merge will be automatically canceled and the work tree untouched.
+It is generally best to get any local changes in working order before
+pulling or stash them away with linkgit:git-stash[1].
+
+OPTIONS
+-------
+
+-q::
+--quiet::
+ This is passed to both underlying git-fetch to squelch reporting of
+ during transfer, and underlying git-merge to squelch output during
+ merging.
+
+-v::
+--verbose::
+ Pass --verbose to git-fetch and git-merge.
+
+--[no-]recurse-submodules[=yes|on-demand|no]::
+ This option controls if new commits of populated submodules should
+ be fetched, and if the working trees of active submodules should be
+ updated, too (see linkgit:git-fetch[1], linkgit:git-config[1] and
+ linkgit:gitmodules[5]).
++
+If the checkout is done via rebase, local submodule commits are rebased as well.
++
+If the update is done via merge, the submodule conflicts are resolved and checked out.
+
+Options related to merging
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+:git-pull: 1
+
+include::merge-options.txt[]
+
+-r::
+--rebase[=false|true|merges|interactive]::
+ When true, 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.
++
+When set to `merges`, rebase using `git rebase --rebase-merges` so that
+the local merge commits are included in the rebase (see
+linkgit:git-rebase[1] for details).
++
+When false, merge the upstream branch into the current branch.
++
+When `interactive`, enable the interactive mode of rebase.
++
+See `pull.rebase`, `branch.<name>.rebase` and `branch.autoSetupRebase` in
+linkgit:git-config[1] if you want to make `git pull` always use
+`--rebase` instead of merging.
++
+[NOTE]
+This is a potentially _dangerous_ mode of operation.
+It rewrites history, which does not bode well when you
+published that history already. Do *not* use this option
+unless you have read linkgit:git-rebase[1] carefully.
+
+--no-rebase::
+ This is shorthand for --rebase=false.
+
+Options related to fetching
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+include::fetch-options.txt[]
+
+include::pull-fetch-param.txt[]
+
+include::urls-remotes.txt[]
+
+include::merge-strategies.txt[]
+
+DEFAULT BEHAVIOUR
+-----------------
+
+Often people use `git pull` without giving any parameter.
+Traditionally, this has been equivalent to saying `git pull
+origin`. However, when configuration `branch.<name>.remote` is
+present while on branch `<name>`, that value is used instead of
+`origin`.
+
+In order to determine what URL to use to fetch from, the value
+of the configuration `remote.<origin>.url` is consulted
+and if there is not any such variable, the value on the `URL:` line
+in `$GIT_DIR/remotes/<origin>` is used.
+
+In order to determine what remote branches to fetch (and
+optionally store in the remote-tracking branches) when the command is
+run without any refspec parameters on the command line, values
+of the configuration variable `remote.<origin>.fetch` are
+consulted, and if there aren't any, `$GIT_DIR/remotes/<origin>`
+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:
+
+------------
+refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
+------------
+
+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 `/*`. The above specifies that all remote
+branches are tracked using remote-tracking branches in
+`refs/remotes/origin/` hierarchy under the same name.
+
+The rule to determine which remote branch to merge after
+fetching is a bit involved, in order not to break backward
+compatibility.
+
+If explicit refspecs were given on the command
+line of `git pull`, they are all merged.
+
+When no refspec was given on the command line, then `git pull`
+uses the refspec from the configuration or
+`$GIT_DIR/remotes/<origin>`. In such cases, the following
+rules apply:
+
+. If `branch.<name>.merge` configuration for the current
+ branch `<name>` exists, that is the name of the branch at the
+ remote site that is merged.
+
+. If the refspec is a globbing one, nothing is merged.
+
+. Otherwise the remote branch of the first refspec is merged.
+
+
+EXAMPLES
+--------
+
+* Update the remote-tracking branches for the repository
+ you cloned from, then merge one of them into your
+ current branch:
++
+------------------------------------------------
+$ git pull
+$ git pull origin
+------------------------------------------------
++
+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 linkgit:git-config[1] for details.
+
+* Merge into the current branch the remote branch `next`:
++
+------------------------------------------------
+$ git pull origin next
+------------------------------------------------
++
+This leaves a copy of `next` temporarily in FETCH_HEAD, and
+updates the remote-tracking branch `origin/next`.
+The same can be done by invoking fetch and merge:
++
+------------------------------------------------
+$ git fetch origin
+$ git merge origin/next
+------------------------------------------------
+
+
+If you tried a pull which resulted in complex conflicts and
+would want to start over, you can recover with 'git reset'.
+
+
+include::transfer-data-leaks.txt[]
+
+BUGS
+----
+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 cannot 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.
+
+SEE ALSO
+--------
+linkgit:git-fetch[1], linkgit:git-merge[1], linkgit:git-config[1]
+
+GIT
+---
+Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite