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| author |  W. Trevor King <wking@tremily.us> | 2012-12-19 11:03:33 -0500 |
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| committer |  Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2012-12-19 09:40:51 -0800 |
| commit | b928922727d6691a3bdc28160f93f25712c565f6 (patch) | |
| tree | 2030ba639d8a6f5e579e87478ecbbd807074bf6b /Documentation | |
| parent | submodule update: add --remote for submodule's upstream changes (diff) | |
| download | tgif-b928922727d6691a3bdc28160f93f25712c565f6.tar.xz | |
submodule add: If --branch is given, record it in .gitmodules
This allows you to easily record a submodule.<name>.branch option in
.gitmodules when you add a new submodule. With this patch,
$ git submodule add -b <branch> <repository> [<path>]
$ git config -f .gitmodules submodule.<path>.branch <branch>
reduces to
$ git submodule add -b <branch> <repository> [<path>]
This means that future calls to
$ git submodule update --remote ...
will get updates from the same branch that you used to initialize the
submodule, which is usually what you want.
Signed-off-by: W. Trevor King <wking@tremily.us>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-submodule.txt | 2 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-submodule.txt b/Documentation/git-submodule.txt index 8bf173a906..b1996f1a63 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-submodule.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-submodule.txt @@ -208,6 +208,8 @@ OPTIONS -b:: --branch:: Branch of repository to add as submodule. + The name of the branch is recorded as `submodule.<path>.branch` in + `.gitmodules` for `update --remote`. -f:: --force:: |