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diff --git a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt index 8e2c0662dd..bd268a8fcc 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt @@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ $ git checkout -b <branch> --track <remote>/<branch> ------------ + You could omit <branch>, in which case the command degenerates to -"check out the current branch", which is a glorified no-op with a +"check out the current branch", which is a glorified no-op with rather expensive side-effects to show only the tracking information, if exists, for the current branch. @@ -256,6 +256,13 @@ section of linkgit:git-add[1] to learn how to operate the `--patch` mode. out anyway. In other words, the ref can be held by more than one worktree. +--[no-]recurse-submodules:: + Using --recurse-submodules will update the content of all initialized + submodules according to the commit recorded in the superproject. If + local modifications in a submodule would be overwritten the checkout + will fail unless `-f` is used. If nothing (or --no-recurse-submodules) + is used, the work trees of submodules will not be updated. + <branch>:: Branch to checkout; if it refers to a branch (i.e., a name that, when prepended with "refs/heads/", is a valid ref), then that |