push: teach --recurse-submodules the on-demand option

diff --git a/Documentation/git-push.txt b/Documentation/git-push.txt
index aede48877fb080bd12c346c74cf7453860d7de21..d653f00f6fbaab94bdfaadcd84146ddce50f453b 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-push.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-push.txt
@@ -162,10 +162,16 @@ useful if you write an alias or script around 'git push'.
        is specified. This flag forces progress status even if the
        standard error stream is not directed to a terminal.
 
---recurse-submodules=check::
-       Check whether all submodule commits used by the revisions to be
-       pushed are available on a remote tracking branch. Otherwise the
-       push will be aborted and the command will exit with non-zero status.
+--recurse-submodules=check|on-demand::
+       Make sure all submodule commits used by the revisions to be
+       pushed are available on a remote tracking branch. If 'check' is
+       used git will verify that all submodule commits that changed in
+       the revisions to be pushed are available on at least one remote
+       of the submodule. If any commits are missing the push will be
+       aborted and exit with non-zero status. If 'on-demand' is used
+       all submodules that changed in the revisions to be pushed will
+       be pushed. If on-demand was not able to push all necessary
+       revisions it will also be aborted and exit with non-zero status.
 
 
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