--[no-]recurse-submodules[=yes|on-demand|no]::
This option controls if new commits of all populated submodules should
- be fetched too (see linkgit:git-config[1] and linkgit:gitmodules[5]).
- That might be necessary to get the data needed for merging submodule
- commits, a feature Git learned in 1.7.3. Notice that the result of a
- merge will not be checked out in the submodule, "git submodule update"
- has to be called afterwards to bring the work tree up to date with the
- merge result.
+ be fetched and updated, too (see linkgit:git-config[1] and
+ linkgit:gitmodules[5]).
++
+If the checkout is done via rebase, local submodule commits are rebased as well.
++
+If the update is done via merge, the submodule conflicts are resolved and checked out.
Options related to merging
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--autostash::
--no-autostash::
Before starting rebase, stash local modifications away (see
- linkgit:git-stash[1]) if needed, and apply the stash when
+ linkgit:git-stash[1]) if needed, and apply the stash entry when
done. `--no-autostash` is useful to override the `rebase.autoStash`
configuration variable (see linkgit:git-config[1]).
+
In order to determine what URL to use to fetch from, the value
of the configuration `remote.<origin>.url` is consulted
-and if there is not any such variable, the value on `URL: ` line
-in `$GIT_DIR/remotes/<origin>` file is used.
+and if there is not any such variable, the value on the `URL:` line
+in `$GIT_DIR/remotes/<origin>` is used.
In order to determine what remote branches to fetch (and
optionally store in the remote-tracking branches) when the command is
run without any refspec parameters on the command line, values
of the configuration variable `remote.<origin>.fetch` are
consulted, and if there aren't any, `$GIT_DIR/remotes/<origin>`
-file is consulted and its `Pull: ` lines are used.
+is consulted and its `Pull:` lines are used.
In addition to the refspec formats described in the OPTIONS
section, you can have a globbing refspec that looks like this: