Git/pull

• Action: incorporates changes from a remote repository into the current branch
• Syntax: git pull [ <options> ] <repository> [ <branch> ]

In its default mode, git pull is shorthand for git fetch followed by git merge FETCH_HEAD.

Sometimes, git pull returns information in a format which does not seem to be documented anywhere, in which it displays a list of files, one file per line, with each file prefixed by a letter. Example:

M	config-libs.php
U	menu-data.php
M	menu.php
U	mw/app-mw.php
A	mw/app-specialpage.php
A	mw/config-libs-both.php
M	mw/config-libs-v1.php
M	mw/config-libs-v2.php
U	mw/menu.php
A	mw/page-section-v3.php
A	mw/page-section.php
M	widgets/menu-action.php
U	widgets/menu-helper.php

It turns out that git status presents much the same information, but spelled out a little more explicitly, from which it can be determined that the letters indicate the following:

• M = modified
• U = both modified
• A = new file

Links

Documentation

• manpage @ kernel.org