title: Merge branch 'X' of URL into X
body: <p>When I and my colleague work on the same git branch, each of us sees a strange commit with message</p>
  
  <p>"Merge branch 'X' of URL into X"</p>
  
  <p>where X - the same branch.</p>
  
  <p>after pull has been performed (and new changes came from remote).
  I said "strange" because I previously work with SVN, and this process in SVN is transparent - SVN doesn't create a commit when I perform "svn update" in order to obtain changes from server.</p>
  
  <p>Is it possible to avoid such commits? They litters log history...</p>