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[PATCH] fetch: document that pruning happens before fetching

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Jun 13, 2016, 23:58 UTC
Message-ID
<20160613235850.GA8009@sigill.intra.peff.net>

This was changed in 10a6cc8 (fetch --prune: Run prune before fetching, 2014-01-02), but it seems that nobody in that discussion realized we were advertising the "after" explicitly.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
---
I include myself in that "nobody" of course. :)
 Documentation/fetch-options.txt | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/fetch-options.txt b/Documentation/fetch-options.txt
index 036edfb..b05a834 100644
--- a/Documentation/fetch-options.txt
+++ b/Documentation/fetch-options.txt
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ ifndef::git-pull[]
 
 -p::
 --prune::
-	After fetching, remove any remote-tracking references that no
+	Before fetching, remove any remote-tracking references that no
 	longer exist on the remote.  Tags are not subject to pruning
 	if they are fetched only because of the default tag
 	auto-following or due to a --tags option.  However, if tags
-- 
2.9.0.150.g8bd4cf6
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