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authorW. Trevor King <wking@tremily.us>2014-01-03 10:31:22 -0800
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2014-01-06 09:08:18 -0800
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Documentation/gitmodules: Only 'update' and 'url' are required
Descriptions for all the settings fell under the initial "Each submodule section also contains the following required keys:". The example shows sections with just 'path' and 'url' entries, which are indeed required, but we should still make the required/optional distinction explicit to clarify that the rest of them are optional. Signed-off-by: W. Trevor King <wking@tremily.us> Reviewed-by: Heiko Voigt <hvoigt@hvoigt.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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diff --git a/Documentation/gitmodules.txt b/Documentation/gitmodules.txt
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@@ -35,6 +35,8 @@ submodule.<name>.url::
linkgit:git-clone[1] or (if it begins with ./ or ../) a location
relative to the superproject's origin repository.
+In addition, there are a number of optional keys:
+
submodule.<name>.update::
Defines what to do when the submodule is updated by the superproject.
If 'checkout' (the default), the new commit specified in the