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| author | Kaartic Sivaraam <kaartic.sivaraam@gmail.com> | 2018-01-14 23:07:37 +0530 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2018-01-16 11:34:36 -0800 |
| commit | e1b3f3dd38c05187ed44939b9c67e96f0ce32d50 (patch) | |
| tree | d20fede6888352919f6c7f9edfc8ebc19b569b33 | |
| parent | 4f73a7f1245d9210da8515798b5a8e68b3b8069c (diff) | |
| download | git-ks/submodule-doc-updates.tar.gz | |
Doc/git-submodule: improve readability and grammar of a sentenceks/submodule-doc-updates
While at it, correctly quote important words.
Signed-off-by: Kaartic Sivaraam <kaartic.sivaraam@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-submodule.txt | 16 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-submodule.txt b/Documentation/git-submodule.txt index ff612001d2..71c5618e82 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-submodule.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-submodule.txt @@ -70,8 +70,8 @@ status [--cached] [--recursive] [--] [<path>...]:: Show the status of the submodules. This will print the SHA-1 of the currently checked out commit for each submodule, along with the submodule path and the output of 'git describe' for the - SHA-1. Each SHA-1 will be prefixed with `-` if the submodule is not - initialized, `+` if the currently checked out submodule commit + SHA-1. Each SHA-1 will possibly be prefixed with `-` if the submodule is + not initialized, `+` if the currently checked out submodule commit does not match the SHA-1 found in the index of the containing repository and `U` if the submodule has merge conflicts. + @@ -132,15 +132,15 @@ expects by cloning missing 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 -the configuration variable. if neither is given, a checkout is performed. -update procedures supported both from the command line as well as setting -`submodule.<name>.update`: +the configuration variable. If neither is given, a 'checkout' is performed. +The 'update' procedures supported both from the command line as well as +through the `submodule.<name>.update` configuration are: checkout;; the commit recorded in the superproject will be checked out in the submodule on a detached HEAD. + If `--force` is specified, the submodule will be checked out (using -`git checkout --force` if appropriate), even if the commit specified +`git checkout --force`), even if the commit specified in the index of the containing repository already matches the commit checked out in the submodule. @@ -150,8 +150,8 @@ checked out in the submodule. merge;; the commit recorded in the superproject will be merged into the current branch in the submodule. -The following procedures are only available via the `submodule.<name>.update` -configuration variable: +The following 'update' procedures are only available via the +`submodule.<name>.update` configuration variable: custom command;; arbitrary shell command that takes a single argument (the sha1 of the commit recorded in the |