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| author | Junio C Hamano <junio@hera.kernel.org> | 2007-06-12 16:09:14 +0000 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <junio@hera.kernel.org> | 2007-06-12 16:09:14 +0000 |
| commit | 16f98874ca3e3f42ea299d3dd858f91f0122d50a (patch) | |
| tree | 58548c76c4bb69c58727e79cff64e7b33640a05a /git-submodule.txt | |
| parent | f614c6470329dcb81603708f9710d5dd2c3a9c43 (diff) | |
| download | git-htmldocs-16f98874ca3e3f42ea299d3dd858f91f0122d50a.tar.gz | |
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diff --git a/git-submodule.txt b/git-submodule.txt index cb0424f77..f8fb80f18 100644 --- a/git-submodule.txt +++ b/git-submodule.txt @@ -23,15 +23,15 @@ status:: repository. This command is the default command for git-submodule. init:: - Initialize the submodules, i.e. clone the git repositories specified - in the .gitmodules file and checkout the submodule commits specified - in the index of the containing repository. This will make the - submodules HEAD be detached. + Initialize the submodules, i.e. register in .git/config each submodule + path and url found in .gitmodules. The key used in git/config is + `submodule.$path.url`. This command does not alter existing information + in .git/config. update:: - Update the initialized submodules, i.e. checkout the submodule commits - specified in the index of the containing repository. This will make - the submodules HEAD be detached. + Update the registered submodules, i.e. clone missing submodules and + checkout the commit specified in the index of the containing repository. + This will make the submodules HEAD be detached. OPTIONS @@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ OPTIONS FILES ----- -When cloning submodules, a .gitmodules file in the top-level directory +When initializing submodules, a .gitmodules file in the top-level directory of the containing repository is used to find the url of each submodule. This file should be formatted in the same way as $GIR_DIR/config. The key to each submodule url is "module.$path.url". |