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diff --git a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt index c8fb995fa7..5b697eee1b 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt @@ -292,11 +292,11 @@ Note that this option uses the no overlay mode by default (see also --recurse-submodules:: --no-recurse-submodules:: - Using `--recurse-submodules` will update the content of all initialized + Using `--recurse-submodules` will update the content of all active 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. + is used, submodules working trees will not be updated. Just like linkgit:git-submodule[1], this will detach `HEAD` of the submodule. |