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| author |  Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com> | 2019-02-07 02:18:55 -0800 |
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| committer |  Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2019-02-07 09:45:50 -0800 |
| commit | 7a4bb55f3a47756b5cd9ca2d120c7fe119439e81 (patch) | |
| tree | 82299314c8f3671ba66d764ea2f1d8e4b5e1e4d4 /Documentation | |
| parent | Git 2.21-rc0 (diff) | |
| download | tgif-7a4bb55f3a47756b5cd9ca2d120c7fe119439e81.tar.xz | |
git-submodule.txt: "--branch <branch>" option defaults to 'master'
This behavior is mentioned in gitmodules.txt but not in
git-submodule.txt so we copy the information over so that it is not
missed.
Also, add the missed argument to the -b/--branch option.
Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-submodule.txt | 7 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-submodule.txt b/Documentation/git-submodule.txt index ba3c4df550..4150148fa3 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-submodule.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-submodule.txt @@ -255,13 +255,14 @@ OPTIONS This option is only valid for the deinit command. Unregister all submodules in the working tree. --b:: ---branch:: +-b <branch>:: +--branch <branch>:: Branch of repository to add as submodule. The name of the branch is recorded as `submodule.<name>.branch` in `.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. + same name as the current branch in the current repository. If the + option is not specified, it defaults to 'master'. -f:: --force:: |