[chris_wot]

No, it isn't since the words fetch and pull mean pretty much the same thing to most people.

All I can say is that there are valid design decisions for seperating the two. That's why they created the shortcut - to make it easier to do what folks intend to do. When people do a pull, then they get what they want. That is the common nomenclature of git, pretty much everywhere.

And to be clear, the man page for git-merge can't be any clearer:

  git-pull - Fetch from and merge with another repository or a local branch 

Looking at the length of your comment...apparently a lot, for most people.

Which I would argue is because they are coming from SVN, and apply their experience with SVN to git. That's not really a problem for git, IMO, but more an issue for those who believe that SVN is the only way to go about doing source control.