From 5c31acfbe22cebdf1a04723b58cdb358e377632a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michal Sojka Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2015 23:57:58 +0100 Subject: submodule: improve documentation of update subcommand The documentation of 'git submodule update' has several problems: 1) It mentions that value 'none' of submodule.$name.update can be overridden by --checkout, but other combinations of configuration values and command line options are not mentioned. 2) The documentation of submodule.$name.update is scattered across three places, which is confusing. 3) The documentation of submodule.$name.update in gitmodules.txt is incorrect, because the code always uses the value from .git/config and never from .gitmodules. 4) Documentation of --force was incomplete, because it is only effective in case of checkout method of update. Fix all these problems by documenting submodule.*.update in git-submodule.txt and make everybody else refer to it. Helped-by: Junio C Hamano Helped-by: Jens Lehmann Signed-off-by: Michal Sojka Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- Documentation/gitmodules.txt | 21 +++++++++------------ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation/gitmodules.txt') diff --git a/Documentation/gitmodules.txt b/Documentation/gitmodules.txt index f6c0dfd029..ac70eca321 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitmodules.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitmodules.txt @@ -38,18 +38,15 @@ submodule..url:: In addition, there are a number of optional keys: submodule..update:: - Defines what to do when the submodule is updated by the superproject. - If 'checkout' (the default), the new commit specified in the - superproject will be checked out in the submodule on a detached HEAD. - If 'rebase', the current branch of the submodule will be rebased onto - the commit specified in the superproject. If 'merge', the commit - specified in the superproject will be merged into the current branch - in the submodule. - If 'none', the submodule with name `$name` will not be updated - by default. - - This config option is overridden if 'git submodule update' is given - the '--merge', '--rebase' or '--checkout' options. + Defines the default update procedure for the named submodule, + i.e. how the submodule is updated by "git submodule update" + command in the superproject. This is only used by `git + submodule init` to initialize the configuration variable of + the same name. Allowed values here are 'checkout', 'rebase', + 'merge' or 'none'. See description of 'update' command in + linkgit:git-submodule[1] for their meaning. Note that the + '!command' form is intentionally ignored here for security + reasons. submodule..branch:: A remote branch name for tracking updates in the upstream submodule. -- cgit v1.3