fetch/pull: Don't recurse into a submodule when commits are already present

[git.git] / Documentation / fetch-options.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/fetch-options.txt b/Documentation/fetch-options.txt
index d2870280c7d4f3931428084d7e0047b149054c90..39d326abc63af01d7cffe3d6f0c3df9279bc667e 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/fetch-options.txt
+++ b/Documentation/fetch-options.txt
@@ -73,7 +73,8 @@ ifndef::git-pull[]
        'yes', which is the default when this option is used without any
        value. Use 'on-demand' to only recurse into a populated submodule
        when the superproject retrieves a commit that updates the submodule's
-       reference.
+       reference to a commit that isn't already in the local submodule
+       clone.
 
 --no-recurse-submodules::
        Disable recursive fetching of submodules (this has the same effect as