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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-fetch.txt | 9 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-pull.txt | 9 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/git-fetch.txt b/Documentation/git-fetch.txt index c76e31392..86692276b 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-fetch.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-fetch.txt @@ -76,6 +76,15 @@ The `pu` branch will be updated even if it is does not fast-forward, because it is prefixed with a plus sign; `tmp` will not be. +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-pull[1] diff --git a/Documentation/git-pull.txt b/Documentation/git-pull.txt index c45efb37f..1aad8bfc5 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-pull.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-pull.txt @@ -220,6 +220,15 @@ 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] |