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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/technical/api-submodule-config.txt | 7 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-submodule-config.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-submodule-config.txt index 8285bcc605..3dce003fda 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/api-submodule-config.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/api-submodule-config.txt @@ -56,8 +56,11 @@ Functions The same as above but lookup by name. -If given the null_sha1 as treeish_name the local configuration of a -submodule will be returned (e.g. consolidated values from local git +Whenever a submodule configuration is parsed in `parse_submodule_config_option` +via e.g. `gitmodules_config()`, it will overwrite the null_sha1 entry. +So in the normal case, when HEAD:.gitmodules is parsed first and then overlayed +with the repository configuration, the null_sha1 entry contains the local +configuration of a submodule (e.g. consolidated values from local git configuration and the .gitmodules file in the worktree). For an example usage see test-submodule-config.c. |