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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/config/remote.txt | 8 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/config/remote.txt b/Documentation/config/remote.txt index 024f92befc..4118c219c1 100644 --- a/Documentation/config/remote.txt +++ b/Documentation/config/remote.txt @@ -106,10 +106,12 @@ remote.<name>.followRemoteHEAD:: How linkgit:git-fetch[1] should handle updates to `remotes/<name>/HEAD`. The default value is "create", which will create `remotes/<name>/HEAD` if it exists on the remote, but not locally, but will not touch an - already existing local reference. Setting to "warn" will print + already existing local reference. Setting to "warn" will print a message if the remote has a different value, than the local one and - in case there is no local reference, it behaves like "create". Setting - to "always" will silently update it to the value on the remote. + in case there is no local reference, it behaves like "create". + A variant on "warn" is "warn-if-not-$branch", which behaves like + "warn", but if `HEAD` on the remote is `$branch` it will be silent. + Setting to "always" will silently update it to the value on the remote. Finally, setting it to "never" will never change or create the local reference. + |