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| author |  Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2011-06-25 22:41:25 +0200 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2011-06-26 13:06:08 -0700 |
| commit | ccee60862bbba6aa65fafbdb1ce357d2b31a795b (patch) | |
| tree | f38631d272ad8952b769bf2b4d438e552b274e35 /Documentation | |
| parent | submodule sync: Update "submodule.<name>.url" for empty directories (diff) | |
| download | tgif-ccee60862bbba6aa65fafbdb1ce357d2b31a795b.tar.xz | |
submodule sync: do not auto-vivify uninteresting submodule
Earlier 33f072f (submodule sync: Update "submodule.<name>.url" for empty
directories, 2010-10-08) attempted to fix a bug where "git submodule sync"
command does not update the URL if the current superproject does not have
a checkout of the submodule.
However, it did so by unconditionally registering submodule.$name.url to
every submodule in the project, even the ones that the user has never
showed interest in at all by running 'git submodule init' command. This
caused subsequent 'git submodule update' to start cloning/updating submodules
that are not interesting to the user at all.
Update the code so that the URL is updated from the .gitmodules file only
for submodules that already have submodule.$name.url entries, i.e. the
ones the user has showed interested in having a checkout.
Acked-by: Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-submodule.txt | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-submodule.txt b/Documentation/git-submodule.txt index 1ed331c599..710633f965 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-submodule.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-submodule.txt @@ -166,7 +166,9 @@ commit for each submodule. sync:: Synchronizes submodules' remote URL configuration setting - to the value specified in .gitmodules. This is useful when + to the value specified in .gitmodules. It will only affect those + submodules which already have an url entry in .git/config (that is the + case when they are initialized or freshly added). This is useful when submodule URLs change upstream and you need to update your local repositories accordingly. + |