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patchgit-remote: document -n

Subject: [PATCH] git-remote: document -n

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Sam Vilain· Mar 18, 2007, 10:01 UTC · lore

The 'show' and 'prune' commands accept an option '-n'; document what it does.

Signed-off-by: Sam Vilain <sam@vilain.net>
---
 Documentation/git-remote.txt |    7 +++++++
 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
Show changes to Documentation/git-remote.txt +7 −0
diff --git a/Documentation/git-remote.txt b/Documentation/git-remote.txt
index a9fb6a9..de2658c 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-remote.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-remote.txt
@@ -49,6 +49,9 @@ branch the `HEAD` at the remote repository actually points at.
 'show'::
 
 Gives some information about the remote <name>.
++
+With `-n` option, the remote heads are not queried first with
+`git ls-remote <name>`; cached information is used instead.
 
 'prune'::
 
@@ -56,6 +59,10 @@ Deletes all stale tracking branches under <name>.
 These stale branches have already been removed from the remote repository
 referenced by <name>, but are still locally available in
 "remotes/<name>".
++
+With `-n` option, the remote heads are not confirmed first with `git
+ls-remote <name>`; cached information is used instead.  Use with
+caution.
 
 'update'::
 
-- 
1.5.0.2.gdcde2

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