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+++ 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.
@@ -229,9 +230,9 @@ branch.<name>.merge options; see linkgit:git-config[1] for details.
$ git pull origin next
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+
-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:
+
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$ git fetch origin