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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/config.txt | 12 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-clone.txt | 5 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt index 8a115b3702..32f065ca6a 100644 --- a/Documentation/config.txt +++ b/Documentation/config.txt @@ -2853,6 +2853,18 @@ submodule.fetchJobs:: in parallel. A value of 0 will give some reasonable default. If unset, it defaults to 1. +submodule.alternateLocation:: + Specifies how the submodules obtain alternates when submodules are + cloned. Possible values are `no`, `superproject`. + By default `no` is assumed, which doesn't add references. When the + value is set to `superproject` the submodule to be cloned computes + its alternates location relative to the superprojects alternate. + +submodule.alternateErrorStrategy + Specifies how to treat errors with the alternates for a submodule + as computed via `submodule.alternateLocation`. Possible values are + `ignore`, `info`, `die`. Default is `die`. + tag.forceSignAnnotated:: A boolean to specify whether annotated tags created should be GPG signed. If `--annotate` is specified on the command line, it takes diff --git a/Documentation/git-clone.txt b/Documentation/git-clone.txt index ec41d3d698..e316c4bd51 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-clone.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-clone.txt @@ -90,13 +90,16 @@ If you want to break the dependency of a repository cloned with `-s` on its source repository, you can simply run `git repack -a` to copy all objects from the source repository into a pack in the cloned repository. ---reference <repository>:: +--reference[-if-able] <repository>:: If the reference repository is on the local machine, automatically setup `.git/objects/info/alternates` to obtain objects from the reference repository. Using an already existing repository as an alternate will require fewer objects to be copied from the repository being cloned, reducing network and local storage costs. + When using the `--reference-if-able`, a non existing + directory is skipped with a warning instead of aborting + the clone. + *NOTE*: see the NOTE for the `--shared` option, and also the `--dissociate` option. |