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diff --git a/Documentation/git-pull.txt b/Documentation/git-pull.txt index ba3772de9f..5c3fb67c01 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-pull.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-pull.txt @@ -85,8 +85,9 @@ OPTIONS Pass --verbose to git-fetch and git-merge. --[no-]recurse-submodules[=yes|on-demand|no]:: - This option controls if new commits of all populated submodules should - be fetched and updated, too (see linkgit:git-config[1] and + This option controls if new commits of populated submodules should + be fetched, and if the working trees of active submodules should be + updated, too (see linkgit:git-fetch[1], linkgit:git-config[1] and linkgit:gitmodules[5]). + If the checkout is done via rebase, local submodule commits are rebased as well. @@ -220,9 +221,9 @@ branch.<name>.merge options; see linkgit:git-config[1] for details. $ git pull origin next ------------------------------------------------ + -This leaves a copy of `next` temporarily in FETCH_HEAD, but -does not update any remote-tracking branches. Using remote-tracking -branches, the same can be done by invoking fetch and merge: +This leaves a copy of `next` temporarily in FETCH_HEAD, and +updates the remote-tracking branch `origin/next`. +The same can be done by invoking fetch and merge: + ------------------------------------------------ $ git fetch origin |