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| author | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2011-04-15 13:25:50 -0700 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2011-04-15 13:27:04 -0700 |
| commit | ed44fd045a8a4bcf7f30a47e4fc6aba761faaf78 (patch) | |
| tree | ccc8afe7eb85ec89347047f8e3fb5ff7f4c2f6a6 /Documentation/git-pull.txt | |
| parent | e0d48279d5a96bc02edac72c1d28fc38aed37c15 (diff) | |
| parent | 4d8b32a2e1758236c4c1b714f179892e3bce982c (diff) | |
| download | git-ed44fd045a8a4bcf7f30a47e4fc6aba761faaf78.tar.gz | |
Merge v1.7.5-rc2 into jn/format-patch-doc
This is to sync with the recent updates in Documentation/SubmittingPatches
and Documentation/format-patch.txt
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/git-pull.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-pull.txt | 23 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-pull.txt b/Documentation/git-pull.txt index b33e6be872..14609cbd4d 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 @@ -220,22 +220,19 @@ 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 |