Merge branch 'rt/maint-clone-single'

[git.git] / Documentation / git-clone.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/git-clone.txt b/Documentation/git-clone.txt
index c1ddd4c2cc78e078a0849fc8fb82f8de0aa7fc9b..6d98ef3d2ab8c8e63e026dbd7e242d3c3bc3c79a 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-clone.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-clone.txt
@@ -29,7 +29,8 @@ currently active branch.
 After the clone, a plain `git fetch` without arguments will update
 all the remote-tracking branches, and a `git pull` without
 arguments will in addition merge the remote master branch into the
-current master branch, if any.
+current master branch, if any (this is untrue when "--single-branch"
+is given; see below).
 
 This default configuration is achieved by creating references to
 the remote branch heads under `refs/remotes/origin` and
@@ -152,9 +153,10 @@ objects from the source repository into a pack in the cloned repository.
 -b <name>::
        Instead of pointing the newly created HEAD to the branch pointed
        to by the cloned repository's HEAD, point to `<name>` branch
-       instead. `--branch` can also take tags and treat them like
-       detached HEAD. In a non-bare repository, this is the branch
-       that will be checked out.
+       instead. In a non-bare repository, this is the branch that will
+       be checked out.
+       `--branch` can also take tags and detaches the HEAD at that commit
+       in the resulting repository.
 
 --upload-pack <upload-pack>::
 -u <upload-pack>::
@@ -193,6 +195,11 @@ objects from the source repository into a pack in the cloned repository.
        clone with the `--depth` option, this is the default, unless
        `--no-single-branch` is given to fetch the histories near the
        tips of all branches.
+       Further fetches into the resulting repository will only update the
+       remote tracking branch for the branch this option was used for the
+       initial cloning.  If the HEAD at the remote did not point at any
+       branch when `--single-branch` clone was made, no remote tracking
+       branch is created.
 
 --recursive::
 --recurse-submodules::