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-rw-r--r--Documentation/fetch-options.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-pull.txt9
2 files changed, 9 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/fetch-options.txt b/Documentation/fetch-options.txt
index 695696da1..f37276e5a 100644
--- a/Documentation/fetch-options.txt
+++ b/Documentation/fetch-options.txt
@@ -64,13 +64,11 @@ ifndef::git-pull[]
downloaded. The default behavior for a remote may be
specified with the remote.<name>.tagopt setting. See
linkgit:git-config[1].
-endif::git-pull[]
--[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]).
-ifndef::git-pull[]
--submodule-prefix=<path>::
Prepend <path> to paths printed in informative messages
such as "Fetching submodule foo". This option is used
diff --git a/Documentation/git-pull.txt b/Documentation/git-pull.txt
index 30466917d..b33e6be87 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-pull.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-pull.txt
@@ -84,6 +84,15 @@ must be given before the options meant for 'git fetch'.
--verbose::
Pass --verbose to git-fetch and git-merge.
+--[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]).
+ That might be necessary to get the data needed for merging submodule
+ commits, a feature git learned in 1.7.3. Notice that the result of a
+ merge will not be checked out in the submodule, "git submodule update"
+ has to be called afterwards to bring the work tree up to date with the
+ merge result.
+
Options related to merging
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