config/remote.txt: improve wording for 'remote.<name>.followRemoteHEAD'
Signed-off-by: Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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@@ -110,12 +110,12 @@ the values inherited from a lower priority configuration files (e.g.
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remote.<name>.followRemoteHEAD::
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How linkgit:git-fetch[1] should handle updates to `remotes/<name>/HEAD`.
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The default value is "create", which will create `remotes/<name>/HEAD`
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- if it exists on the remote, but not locally, but will not touch an
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- already existing local reference. Setting to "warn" will print
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- a message if the remote has a different value, than the local one and
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+ if it exists on the remote, but not locally; this will not touch an
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+ already existing local reference. Setting it to "warn" will print
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+ a message if the remote has a different value than the local one;
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in case there is no local reference, it behaves like "create".
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A variant on "warn" is "warn-if-not-$branch", which behaves like
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"warn", but if `HEAD` on the remote is `$branch` it will be silent.
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- Setting to "always" will silently update it to the value on the remote.
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- Finally, setting it to "never" will never change or create the local
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- reference.
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+ Setting it to "always" will silently update `remotes/<name>/HEAD` to
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+ the value on the remote. Finally, setting it to "never" will never
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+ change or create the local reference.