Merge branch 'bw/pathspec-sans-the-index'

diff --git a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt
index 8e2c0662ddd72c1bc0765aadbbafd22b62b5adf6..d6399c0af86bb84cd86b82500ce706cbcd93cd93 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt
@@ -256,6 +256,13 @@ section of linkgit:git-add[1] to learn how to operate the `--patch` mode.
        out anyway. In other words, the ref can be held by more than one
        worktree.
 
+--[no-]recurse-submodules::
+       Using --recurse-submodules will update the content of all initialized
+       submodules according to the commit recorded in the superproject. If
+       local modifications in a submodule would be overwritten the checkout
+       will fail unless `-f` is used. If nothing (or --no-recurse-submodules)
+       is used, the work trees of submodules will not be updated.
+
 <branch>::
        Branch to checkout; if it refers to a branch (i.e., a name that,
        when prepended with "refs/heads/", is a valid ref), then that