checkout: tone down the "forked status" diagnostic messages

diff --git a/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt b/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt
index 329fce0aab417e5fe02845bd21b693f5200b3634..5d9c36985f4e37cdbecf29e4be52918dc4e8781f 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt
@@ -70,6 +70,13 @@ OPTIONS
        possible '{caret}' prefix); this option makes them output in a
        form as close to the original input as possible.
 
+--symbolic-full-name::
+       This is similar to \--symbolic, but it omits input that
+       are not refs (i.e. branch or tag names; or more
+       explicitly disambiguating "heads/master" form, when you
+       want to name the "master" branch when there is an
+       unfortunately named tag "master"), and show them as full
+       refnames (e.g. "refs/heads/master").
 
 --all::
        Show all refs found in `$GIT_DIR/refs`.
@@ -371,4 +378,4 @@ Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
 
 GIT
 ---
-Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite
+Part of the linkgit:git[7] suite