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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-submodule.txt | 7 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/git-submodule.txt b/Documentation/git-submodule.txt index 67cf5f0f8b..cd9c167e0a 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-submodule.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-submodule.txt @@ -79,7 +79,12 @@ to exist in the superproject. If <path> is not given, the <repository> is the URL of the new submodule's origin repository. This may be either an absolute URL, or (if it begins with ./ or ../), the location relative to the superproject's origin -repository. If the superproject doesn't have an origin configured +repository (Please note that to specify a repository 'foo.git' +which is located right next to a superproject 'bar.git', you'll +have to use '../foo.git' instead of './foo.git' - as one might expect +when following the rules for relative URLs - because the evaluation +of relative URLs in Git is identical to that of relative directories). +If the superproject doesn't have an origin configured the superproject is its own authoritative upstream and the current working directory is used instead. + |