[PATCH v3 2/8] doc: explain fetchRemoteHEADWarn advice
From: Matt Hunter <hidden>
Date: 2026-06-19 09:48:29
Subsystem:
documentation, the rest · Maintainers:
Jonathan Corbet, Linus Torvalds
When the user sets 'remote.<name>.followRemoteHEAD' to 'warn[-if-not-$branch]', git-fetch will report when a fetched HEAD disagrees with the locally-configured remote's HEAD. This additional advice instructs the user how to deal with these warnings, but was previously undocumented in git-config. Signed-off-by: Matt Hunter <redacted> --- Documentation/config/advice.adoc | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/config/advice.adoc b/Documentation/config/advice.adoc
index 257db5891817..c3c190ba6a4f 100644
--- a/Documentation/config/advice.adoc
+++ b/Documentation/config/advice.adoc@@ -48,6 +48,10 @@ all advice messages. to create a local branch after the fact. diverging:: Shown when a fast-forward is not possible. + fetchRemoteHEADWarn:: + Shown when linkgit:git-fetch[1] reveals that a remote `HEAD` + differs from what is set locally and the user has opted into + receiving a warning in this situation. fetchShowForcedUpdates:: Shown when linkgit:git-fetch[1] takes a long time to calculate forced updates after ref updates, or to warn
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