[PATCH] Clean up the SunOS Makefile rule

[git.git] / Documentation / tutorial.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/tutorial.txt b/Documentation/tutorial.txt
index b9f737e..20a4cb1 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/tutorial.txt
+++ b/Documentation/tutorial.txt
@@ -1028,7 +1028,9 @@ multiple working trees, but disk space is cheap these days.
 
 [NOTE]
 You could even pull from your own repository by
-giving '.' as <remote-repository> parameter to `git pull`.
+giving '.' as <remote-repository> parameter to `git pull`.  This
+is useful when you want to merge a local branch (or more, if you
+are making an Octopus) into the current branch.
 
 It is likely that you will be pulling from the same remote
 repository from time to time. As a short hand, you can store