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authorBrandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>2016-10-19 13:42:54 -0700
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2016-10-19 14:58:53 -0700
commit15ef78008aa6cdd42dbef3b1bd00ae64e4ab731a (patch)
tree8a1263c82e856f8c201a9c9ac817a80ada4cf444
parent4d7bc52b178bffe9e484c4dcd92d5353e2ce716f (diff)
downloadgit-15ef78008aa6cdd42dbef3b1bd00ae64e4ab731a.tar.gz
submodules doc: update documentation for "." used for submodule branchesbw/submodule-branch-dot-doc
4d7bc52b17 ("submodule update: allow '.' for branch value", 2016-08-03) adopted from Gerrit a feature to set "." as a special value of "submodule.<name>.branch" in .gitmodules file to indicate that the tracking branch in the submodule should be the same as the current branch in the superproject. Update the documentation to describe this. Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
-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 07cdd73ab2..5f50df4079 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