Merge branch 'jc/maint-rev-list-culled-boundary'

diff --git a/Documentation/git-pull.txt b/Documentation/git-pull.txt
index 30466917dad52eefd76de95aead3fdc12ad8425d..c2a7f103ee5bf4495d39b3034752be564b119766 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-pull.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-pull.txt
@@ -84,6 +84,15 @@ must be given before the options meant for 'git fetch'.
 --verbose::
        Pass --verbose to git-fetch and git-merge.
 
+--[no-]recurse-submodules::
+       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.
+
 Options related to merging
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
@@ -215,18 +224,6 @@ SEE ALSO
 --------
 linkgit:git-fetch[1], linkgit:git-merge[1], linkgit:git-config[1]
 
-
-Author
-------
-Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
-and Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
-
-Documentation
---------------
-Documentation by Jon Loeliger,
-David Greaves,
-Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
-
 GIT
 ---
 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite