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diff --git a/Documentation/git-pull.txt b/Documentation/git-pull.txt
index 712ab4baed..e414185f5a 100644
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+++ b/Documentation/git-pull.txt
@@ -67,16 +67,13 @@ with uncommitted changes is discouraged: while possible, it leaves you
in a state that may be hard to back out of in the case of a conflict.
If any of the remote changes overlap with local uncommitted changes,
-the merge will be automatically cancelled and the work tree untouched.
+the merge will be automatically canceled and the work tree untouched.
It is generally best to get any local changes in working order before
pulling or stash them away with linkgit:git-stash[1].
OPTIONS
-------
-Options meant for 'git pull' itself and the underlying 'git merge'
-must be given before the options meant for 'git fetch'.
-
-q::
--quiet::
This is passed to both underlying git-fetch to squelch reporting of
@@ -104,7 +101,7 @@ Options related to merging
include::merge-options.txt[]
-r::
---rebase[=false|true|preserve]::
+--rebase[=false|true|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
@@ -116,6 +113,8 @@ to `git rebase` so that locally created merge commits will not be flattened.
+
When false, merge the current branch into the upstream branch.
+
+When `interactive`, enable the interactive mode of rebase.
++
See `pull.rebase`, `branch.<name>.rebase` and `branch.autoSetupRebase` in
linkgit:git-config[1] if you want to make `git pull` always use
`--rebase` instead of merging.
@@ -129,6 +128,15 @@ 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 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
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
@@ -151,15 +159,15 @@ present while on branch `<name>`, that value is used instead of
In order to determine what URL to use to fetch from, the value
of the configuration `remote.<origin>.url` is consulted
-and if there is not any such variable, the value on `URL: ` line
-in `$GIT_DIR/remotes/<origin>` file is used.
+and if there is not any such variable, the value on the `URL:` line
+in `$GIT_DIR/remotes/<origin>` is used.
In order to determine what remote branches to fetch (and
optionally store in the remote-tracking branches) when the command is
run without any refspec parameters on the command line, values
of the configuration variable `remote.<origin>.fetch` are
consulted, and if there aren't any, `$GIT_DIR/remotes/<origin>`
-file is consulted and its `Pull: ` lines are used.
+is consulted and its `Pull:` lines are used.
In addition to the refspec formats described in the OPTIONS
section, you can have a globbing refspec that looks like this:
@@ -202,7 +210,8 @@ EXAMPLES
current branch:
+
------------------------------------------------
-$ git pull, git pull origin
+$ git pull
+$ git pull origin
------------------------------------------------
+
Normally the branch merged in is the HEAD of the remote repository,
@@ -229,6 +238,8 @@ If you tried a pull which resulted in complex conflicts and
would want to start over, you can recover with 'git reset'.
+include::transfer-data-leaks.txt[]
+
BUGS
----
Using --recurse-submodules can only fetch new commits in already checked