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| author | Johan Herland <johan@herland.net> | 2009-08-19 03:45:23 +0200 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2009-08-18 22:59:12 -0700 |
| commit | b13fd5c1a2bd450cdf7b853e0c4861f361882a18 (patch) | |
| tree | 018a5a1d768bc24e4a84c6ad32da32d202adf3df /Documentation | |
| parent | 15fc56a853648c60697df691c5cd8a11ad718611 (diff) | |
| download | git-b13fd5c1a2bd450cdf7b853e0c4861f361882a18.tar.gz | |
git submodule update: Introduce --recursive to update nested submodules
In very large and hierarchically structured projects, one may encounter
nested submodules. In these situations, it is valuable to not only update
the submodules in the current repo (which is what is currently done by
'git submodule update'), but also to operate on all submodules at all
levels (i.e. recursing into nested submodules as well).
This patch teaches the new --recursive option to the 'git submodule update'
command. The patch also includes documentation and selftests.
Signed-off-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-submodule.txt | 7 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-submodule.txt b/Documentation/git-submodule.txt index 326136a85b..55bbc4f930 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-submodule.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-submodule.txt @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ SYNOPSIS 'git submodule' [--quiet] status [--cached] [--] [<path>...] 'git submodule' [--quiet] init [--] [<path>...] 'git submodule' [--quiet] update [--init] [-N|--no-fetch] [--rebase] - [--reference <repository>] [--merge] [--] [<path>...] + [--reference <repository>] [--merge] [--recursive] [--] [<path>...] 'git submodule' [--quiet] summary [--cached] [--summary-limit <n>] [commit] [--] [<path>...] 'git submodule' [--quiet] foreach [--recursive] <command> 'git submodule' [--quiet] sync [--] [<path>...] @@ -122,6 +122,9 @@ update:: If the submodule is not yet initialized, and you just want to use the setting as stored in .gitmodules, you can automatically initialize the submodule with the --init option. ++ +If '--recursive' is specified, this command will recurse into the +registered submodules, and update any nested submodules within. summary:: Show commit summary between the given commit (defaults to HEAD) and @@ -213,7 +216,7 @@ OPTIONS for linkgit:git-clone[1]'s --reference and --shared options carefully. --recursive:: - This option is only valid for the foreach command. + This option is only valid for foreach and update commands. Traverse submodules recursively. The operation is performed not only in the submodules of the current repo, but also in any nested submodules inside those submodules (and so on). |