Documentation: not learning core git commands.

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

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        option old data in `.git/FETCH_HEAD` will be overwritten.
 
 -f, \--force::
+       When `git-fetch` is used with `<rbranch>:<lbranch>`
+       refspec, it refuses to update the local branch
+       `<lbranch>` unless the remote branch `<rbranch>` it
+       fetches is a descendant of `<lbranch>`.  This option
+       overrides that check.
 
 -t, \--tags::
        By default, the git core utilities will not fetch and store