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diff --git a/Documentation/git-pull.txt b/Documentation/git-pull.txt index ce05b7a5b1..5c3fb67c01 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-pull.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-pull.txt @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ git-pull - Fetch from and integrate with another repository or a local branch SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] -'git pull' [options] [<repository> [<refspec>...]] +'git pull' [<options>] [<repository> [<refspec>...]] DESCRIPTION @@ -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. @@ -101,15 +102,20 @@ Options related to merging include::merge-options.txt[] -r:: ---rebase[=false|true|preserve|interactive]:: +--rebase[=false|true|merges|preserve|interactive]:: When true, rebase the current branch on top of the upstream branch after fetching. If there is a remote-tracking branch corresponding to the upstream branch and the upstream branch was rebased since last fetched, the rebase uses that information to avoid rebasing non-local changes. + -When set to preserve, rebase with the `--preserve-merges` option passed -to `git rebase` so that locally created merge commits will not be flattened. +When set to `merges`, rebase using `git rebase --rebase-merges` so that +the local merge commits are included in the rebase (see +linkgit:git-rebase[1] for details). ++ +When set to `preserve` (deprecated in favor of `merges`), rebase with the +`--preserve-merges` option passed to `git rebase` so that locally created +merge commits will not be flattened. + When false, merge the current branch into the upstream branch. + @@ -128,15 +134,6 @@ unless you have read linkgit:git-rebase[1] carefully. --no-rebase:: Override earlier --rebase. ---autostash:: ---no-autostash:: - Before starting rebase, stash local modifications away (see - linkgit:git-stash[1]) if needed, and apply the stash entry when - done. `--no-autostash` is useful to override the `rebase.autoStash` - configuration variable (see linkgit:git-config[1]). -+ -This option is only valid when "--rebase" is used. - Options related to fetching ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ @@ -224,9 +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 @@ -244,7 +241,7 @@ 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 +just fetched commits of the superproject the submodule itself cannot 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. |