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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/config.txt | 12 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/fetch-options.txt | 25 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-fetch.txt | 9 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-pull.txt | 11 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/gitmodules.txt | 4 |
5 files changed, 51 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt index 1d0d1b7677..6d4dfa602e 100644 --- a/Documentation/config.txt +++ b/Documentation/config.txt @@ -897,9 +897,13 @@ diff.wordRegex:: characters are *ignorable* whitespace. fetch.recurseSubmodules:: - A boolean value which changes the behavior for fetch and pull, the - default is to not recursively fetch populated submodules unless - configured otherwise. + This option can be either set to a boolean value or to 'on-demand'. + Setting it to a boolean changes the behavior of fetch and pull to + unconditionally recurse into submodules when set to true or to not + recurse at all when set to false. When set to 'on-demand' (the default + value), fetch and pull will only recurse into a populated submodule + when its superproject retrieves a commit that updates the submodule's + reference. fetch.unpackLimit:: If the number of objects fetched over the git native @@ -1823,7 +1827,7 @@ submodule.<name>.update:: linkgit:git-submodule[1] and linkgit:gitmodules[5] for details. submodule.<name>.fetchRecurseSubmodules:: - This option can be used to enable/disable recursive fetching of this + This option can be used to control recursive fetching of this submodule. It can be overridden by using the --[no-]recurse-submodules command line option to "git fetch" and "git pull". This setting will override that from in the linkgit:gitmodules[5] diff --git a/Documentation/fetch-options.txt b/Documentation/fetch-options.txt index f37276e5ad..39d326abc6 100644 --- a/Documentation/fetch-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/fetch-options.txt @@ -65,14 +65,33 @@ ifndef::git-pull[] specified with the remote.<name>.tagopt setting. See linkgit:git-config[1]. ---[no-]recurse-submodules:: - This option controls if new commits of all populated submodules should - be fetched too (see linkgit:git-config[1] and linkgit:gitmodules[5]). +--recurse-submodules[=yes|on-demand|no]:: + This option controls if and under what conditions new commits of + populated submodules should be fetched too. It can be used as a + boolean option to completely disable recursion when set to 'no' or to + unconditionally recurse into all populated submodules when set to + 'yes', which is the default when this option is used without any + value. Use 'on-demand' to only recurse into a populated submodule + when the superproject retrieves a commit that updates the submodule's + reference to a commit that isn't already in the local submodule + clone. + +--no-recurse-submodules:: + Disable recursive fetching of submodules (this has the same effect as + using the '--recurse-submodules=no' option). --submodule-prefix=<path>:: Prepend <path> to paths printed in informative messages such as "Fetching submodule foo". This option is used internally when recursing over submodules. + +--recurse-submodules-default=[yes|on-demand]:: + This option is used internally to temporarily provide a + non-negative default value for the --recurse-submodules + option. All other methods of configuring fetch's submodule + recursion (such as settings in linkgit:gitmodules[5] and + linkgit:git-config[1]) override this option, as does + specifying --[no-]recurse-submodules directly. endif::git-pull[] -u:: diff --git a/Documentation/git-fetch.txt b/Documentation/git-fetch.txt index 7146f6ba0b..67d221467d 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-fetch.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-fetch.txt @@ -76,6 +76,15 @@ The `pu` branch will be updated even if it is does not fast-forward, because it is prefixed with a plus sign; `tmp` will not be. +BUGS +---- +Using --recurse-submodules can only fetch new commits in already checked +out submodules right now. When e.g. upstream added a new submodule in the +just fetched commits of the superproject the submodule itself can not be +fetched, making it impossible to check out that submodule later without +having to do a fetch again. This is expected to be fixed in a future git +version. + SEE ALSO -------- linkgit:git-pull[1] diff --git a/Documentation/git-pull.txt b/Documentation/git-pull.txt index c2a7f103ee..14609cbd4d 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-pull.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-pull.txt @@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ must be given before the options meant for 'git fetch'. --verbose:: Pass --verbose to git-fetch and git-merge. ---[no-]recurse-submodules:: +--[no-]recurse-submodules[=yes|on-demand|no]:: This option controls if new commits of all populated submodules should be fetched too (see linkgit:git-config[1] and linkgit:gitmodules[5]). That might be necessary to get the data needed for merging submodule @@ -220,6 +220,15 @@ If you tried a pull which resulted in a complex conflicts and would want to start over, you can recover with 'git reset'. +BUGS +---- +Using --recurse-submodules can only fetch new commits in already checked +out submodules right now. When e.g. upstream added a new submodule in the +just fetched commits of the superproject the submodule itself can not be +fetched, making it impossible to check out that submodule later without +having to do a fetch again. This is expected to be fixed in a future git +version. + SEE ALSO -------- linkgit:git-fetch[1], linkgit:git-merge[1], linkgit:git-config[1] diff --git a/Documentation/gitmodules.txt b/Documentation/gitmodules.txt index 15a2186559..4040941e55 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitmodules.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitmodules.txt @@ -45,12 +45,12 @@ submodule.<name>.update:: the '--merge' or '--rebase' options. submodule.<name>.fetchRecurseSubmodules:: - This option can be used to enable/disable recursive fetching of this + This option can be used to control recursive fetching of this submodule. If this option is also present in the submodules entry in .git/config of the superproject, the setting there will override the one found in .gitmodules. Both settings can be overridden on the command line by using the - "--[no-]recurse-submodules" option to "git fetch" and "git pull".. + "--[no-]recurse-submodules" option to "git fetch" and "git pull". submodule.<name>.ignore:: Defines under what circumstances "git status" and the diff family show |