GIT 0.99.9c

[git.git] / Documentation / git-pull.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/git-pull.txt b/Documentation/git-pull.txt
index bae05de..cef4c0a 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-pull.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-pull.txt
@@ -19,6 +19,9 @@ When only one ref is downloaded, runs 'git resolve' to merge it
 into the local HEAD.  Otherwise uses 'git octopus' to merge them
 into the local HEAD.
 
+Note that you can use '.' (current directory) as the
+<repository> to pull from the local repository -- this is useful
+when merging local branches into the current branch.
 
 OPTIONS
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