From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2010 19:49:08 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: docs: clarify "branch -l"
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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>
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diff --git a/Documentation/git-branch.txt b/Documentation/git-branch.txt
index 6b6c3da2d..b3605c0ec 100644
--- 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::