Merge branch 'jh/maint-submodule-status-in-void' (early part)

[git.git] / Documentation / git-fetch-pack.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/git-fetch-pack.txt b/Documentation/git-fetch-pack.txt
index e9952e82108d3a0fa209bc9d720fa1f1229310b4..4a8487c1547abc156c8fad9e7cafe4d3c5a535f6 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-fetch-pack.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-fetch-pack.txt
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ higher level wrapper of this command, instead.
 Invokes 'git-upload-pack' on a possibly remote repository
 and asks it to send objects missing from this repository, to
 update the named heads.  The list of commits available locally
-is found out by scanning local $GIT_DIR/refs/ and sent to
+is found out by scanning the local refs/ hierarchy and sent to
 'git-upload-pack' running on the other end.
 
 This command degenerates to download everything to complete the
@@ -44,8 +44,8 @@ OPTIONS
        locked against repacking.
 
 --thin::
-       Spend extra cycles to minimize the number of objects to be sent.
-       Use it on slower connection.
+       Fetch a "thin" pack, which records objects in deltified form based
+       on objects not included in the pack to reduce network traffic.
 
 --include-tag::
        If the remote side supports it, annotated tags objects will