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diff --git a/Documentation/git-pull.txt b/Documentation/git-pull.txt index b33e6be872..0f18ec891a 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-pull.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-pull.txt @@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ git-pull - Fetch from and merge with another repository or a local branch SYNOPSIS -------- +[verse] 'git pull' [options] [<repository> [<refspec>...]] @@ -84,7 +85,7 @@ must be given before the options meant for 'git fetch'. --verbose:: Pass --verbose to git-fetch and git-merge. ---[no-]recurse-submodules:: +--[no-]recurse-submodules[=yes|on-demand|no]:: This option controls if new commits of all populated submodules should be fetched too (see linkgit:git-config[1] and linkgit:gitmodules[5]). That might be necessary to get the data needed for merging submodule @@ -107,7 +108,7 @@ include::merge-options.txt[] fetched, the rebase uses that information to avoid rebasing non-local changes. + -See `branch.<name>.rebase` and `branch.autosetuprebase` in +See `pull.rebase`, `branch.<name>.rebase` and `branch.autosetuprebase` in linkgit:git-config[1] if you want to make `git pull` always use `{litdd}rebase` instead of merging. + @@ -220,22 +221,19 @@ If you tried a pull which resulted in a complex conflicts and would want to start over, you can recover with 'git reset'. +BUGS +---- +Using --recurse-submodules can only fetch new commits in already checked +out submodules right now. When e.g. upstream added a new submodule in the +just fetched commits of the superproject the submodule itself can not be +fetched, making it impossible to check out that submodule later without +having to do a fetch again. This is expected to be fixed in a future git +version. + SEE ALSO -------- linkgit:git-fetch[1], linkgit:git-merge[1], linkgit:git-config[1] - -Author ------- -Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> -and Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> - -Documentation --------------- -Documentation by Jon Loeliger, -David Greaves, -Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>. - GIT --- Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite |