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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/fetch-options.txt | 16 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-pull.txt | 2 |
2 files changed, 14 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/fetch-options.txt b/Documentation/fetch-options.txt index bde62d467f..d2870280c7 100644 --- a/Documentation/fetch-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/fetch-options.txt @@ -65,9 +65,19 @@ ifndef::git-pull[] specified with the remote.<name>.tagopt setting. See linkgit:git-config[1]. ---[no-]recurse-submodules:: - This option controls if new commits of all populated submodules should - be fetched too (see linkgit:git-config[1] and linkgit:gitmodules[5]). +--recurse-submodules[=yes|on-demand|no]:: + This option controls if and under what conditions new commits of + populated submodules should be fetched too. It can be used as a + boolean option to completely disable recursion when set to 'no' or to + unconditionally recurse into all populated submodules when set to + 'yes', which is the default when this option is used without any + value. Use 'on-demand' to only recurse into a populated submodule + when the superproject retrieves a commit that updates the submodule's + reference. + +--no-recurse-submodules:: + Disable recursive fetching of submodules (this has the same effect as + using the '--recurse-submodules=no' option). --submodule-prefix=<path>:: Prepend <path> to paths printed in informative messages diff --git a/Documentation/git-pull.txt b/Documentation/git-pull.txt index b33e6be872..c45efb37f5 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-pull.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-pull.txt @@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ 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 |