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authorJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2016-10-28 09:01:19 -0700
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2016-10-28 09:01:19 -0700
commitc8386962d6590ec6f71f353bc5b1b573b1e71b16 (patch)
tree5e3b5b0c5b9cc7cd1f6256dd80f041bb21b624a1
parent63cf124c2436722d70c28fc12f9337e9938091ef (diff)
parent15ef78008aa6cdd42dbef3b1bd00ae64e4ab731a (diff)
downloadgit-c8386962d6590ec6f71f353bc5b1b573b1e71b16.tar.gz
Merge branch 'bw/submodule-branch-dot-doc' into maint
Recent git allows submodule.<name>.branch to use a special token "." instead of the branch name; the documentation has been updated to describe it. * bw/submodule-branch-dot-doc: submodules doc: update documentation for "." used for submodule branches
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-submodule.txt4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/gitmodules.txt7
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 3 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::
diff --git a/Documentation/gitmodules.txt b/Documentation/gitmodules.txt
index 10dcc08ff9..8f7c50f330 100644
--- a/Documentation/gitmodules.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitmodules.txt
@@ -50,8 +50,11 @@ submodule.<name>.update::
submodule.<name>.branch::
A remote branch name for tracking updates in the upstream submodule.
- If the option is not specified, it defaults to 'master'. See the
- `--remote` documentation in linkgit:git-submodule[1] for details.
+ If the option is not specified, it defaults to 'master'. 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. See the `--remote` documentation in
+ linkgit:git-submodule[1] for details.
submodule.<name>.fetchRecurseSubmodules::
This option can be used to control recursive fetching of this