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| author | Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com> | 2016-10-19 22:42:54 +0200 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2016-10-19 23:58:53 +0200 |
| commit | 15ef78008aa6cdd42dbef3b1bd00ae64e4ab731a (patch) | |
| tree | 8a1263c82e856f8c201a9c9ac817a80ada4cf444 /Documentation/git-submodule.txt | |
| parent | submodule update: allow '.' for branch value (diff) | |
| download | git-15ef78008aa6cdd42dbef3b1bd00ae64e4ab731a.tar.xz git-15ef78008aa6cdd42dbef3b1bd00ae64e4ab731a.zip | |
submodules doc: update documentation for "." used for submodule branches
4d7bc52b17 ("submodule update: allow '.' for branch value",
2016-08-03) adopted from Gerrit a feature to set "." as a special
value of "submodule.<name>.branch" in .gitmodules file to indicate
that the tracking branch in the submodule should be the same as the
current branch in the superproject.
Update the documentation to describe this.
Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/git-submodule.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-submodule.txt | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-submodule.txt b/Documentation/git-submodule.txt index bf3bb372ee..d841573475 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-submodule.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-submodule.txt @@ -259,7 +259,9 @@ OPTIONS --branch:: Branch of repository to add as submodule. The name of the branch is recorded as `submodule.<name>.branch` in - `.gitmodules` for `update --remote`. + `.gitmodules` for `update --remote`. A special value of `.` is used to + indicate that the name of the branch in the submodule should be the + same name as the current branch in the current repository. -f:: --force:: |