docs: clarify "branch -l"

This option is mostly useless these days because we turn on
reflogs by default in non-bare repos.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

diff --git a/Documentation/git-branch.txt b/Documentation/git-branch.txt
index 6b6c3da2d95ad2d5d94949034d5dd723f48d977a..b3605c0ec560025e2b53286e4f69bc75c894140b 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-branch.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-branch.txt
@@ -72,6 +72,8 @@ OPTIONS
        Create the branch's reflog.  This activates recording of
        all changes made to the branch ref, enabling use of date
        based sha1 expressions such as "<branchname>@\{yesterday}".
+       Note that in non-bare repositories, reflogs are usually
+       enabled by default by the `core.logallrefupdates` config option.
 
 -f::
 --force::