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| author | Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com> | 2019-11-23 21:01:35 -0500 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2019-11-24 15:03:18 +0900 |
| commit | f0e58b3fe85970cfac20cd10545dd91a65094887 (patch) | |
| tree | 68e546a09b81401067020008063a770f21400d1e /Documentation/git-submodule.txt | |
| parent | 5fa0f5238b0cd46cfe7f6fa76c3f526ea98148d9 (diff) | |
| download | git-f0e58b3fe85970cfac20cd10545dd91a65094887.tar.gz | |
doc: mention that 'git submodule update' fetches missing commits
'git submodule update' will fetch new commits from the submodule remote
if the SHA-1 recorded in the superproject is not found. This was not
mentioned in the documentation.
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Helped-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/git-submodule.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-submodule.txt | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-submodule.txt b/Documentation/git-submodule.txt index 0ed5c24dc1..4beb569ae5 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-submodule.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-submodule.txt @@ -133,7 +133,8 @@ update [--init] [--remote] [-N|--no-fetch] [--[no-]recommend-shallow] [-f|--forc + -- Update the registered submodules to match what the superproject -expects by cloning missing submodules and updating the working tree of +expects by cloning missing submodules, fetching missing commits +in submodules and updating the working tree of the submodules. The "updating" can be done in several ways depending on command line options and the value of `submodule.<name>.update` configuration variable. The command line option takes precedence over |