Re: [PATCH v2] pull: Document the "--[no-]recurse-submodules" options

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Feb 7, 2011, 21:42 UTC
Message-ID: <7vsjvzttbs.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <4D5047BD.6030304@web.de>

Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de> writes:

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> diff --git a/Documentation/fetch-options.txt b/Documentation/fetch-options.txt
> index 695696d..ab0dbfc 100644
> --- a/Documentation/fetch-options.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/fetch-options.txt
> @@ -64,11 +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]).
> +endif::git-pull[]
>
>  ifndef::git-pull[]
>  --submodule-prefix=<path>::

Hmph, why not enclose the three of them inside a single ifndef here?

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> diff --git a/Documentation/git-pull.txt b/Documentation/git-pull.txt
> index 3046691..b33e6be 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.

Ok.