From 70c7ac22de681a83621bda03e676348170c8d8a2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Lars Hjemli Date: Sat, 26 May 2007 15:56:40 +0200 Subject: Add git-submodule command This command can be used to initialize, update and inspect submodules. It uses a .gitmodules file, readable by git-config, in the top level directory of the 'superproject' to specify a mapping between submodule paths and repository url. Example .gitmodules layout: [module "git"] url = git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git With this entry in .gitmodules (and a commit reference in the index entry for the path "git"), the command 'git submodule init' will clone the repository at kernel.org into the directory "git". Known issues ============ There is currently no way to override the url found in the .gitmodules file, except by manually creating the subproject repository. The place to fix this in the script has a rather long comment about a possible plan. Funny paths will be quoted in the output from git-ls-files, but git-submodule does not attempt to unquote (or even detect the presence of) such paths. Signed-off-by: Lars Hjemli Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- Documentation/cmd-list.perl | 1 + Documentation/git-submodule.txt | 65 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 66 insertions(+) create mode 100644 Documentation/git-submodule.txt (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/cmd-list.perl b/Documentation/cmd-list.perl index 443802a9a3..51dc6b4105 100755 --- a/Documentation/cmd-list.perl +++ b/Documentation/cmd-list.perl @@ -180,6 +180,7 @@ git-ssh-fetch synchingrepositories git-ssh-upload synchingrepositories git-status mainporcelain git-stripspace purehelpers +git-submodule mainporcelain git-svn foreignscminterface git-svnimport foreignscminterface git-symbolic-ref plumbingmanipulators diff --git a/Documentation/git-submodule.txt b/Documentation/git-submodule.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..cb0424f77b --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/git-submodule.txt @@ -0,0 +1,65 @@ +git-submodule(1) +================ + +NAME +---- +git-submodule - Initialize, update or inspect submodules + + +SYNOPSIS +-------- +'git-submodule' [--quiet] [--cached] [status|init|update] [--] [...] + + +COMMANDS +-------- +status:: + Show the status of the submodules. This will print the SHA-1 of the + currently checked out commit for each submodule, along with the + submodule path and the output of gitlink:git-describe[1] for the + SHA-1. Each SHA-1 will be prefixed with `-` if the submodule is not + initialized and `+` if the currently checked out submodule commit + does not match the SHA-1 found in the index of the containing + repository. This command is the default command for git-submodule. + +init:: + Initialize the submodules, i.e. clone the git repositories specified + in the .gitmodules file and checkout the submodule commits specified + in the index of the containing repository. This will make the + submodules HEAD be detached. + +update:: + Update the initialized submodules, i.e. checkout the submodule commits + specified in the index of the containing repository. This will make + the submodules HEAD be detached. + + +OPTIONS +------- +-q, --quiet:: + Only print error messages. + +--cached:: + Display the SHA-1 stored in the index, not the SHA-1 of the currently + checked out submodule commit. This option is only valid for the + status command. + +:: + Path to submodule(s). When specified this will restrict the command + to only operate on the submodules found at the specified paths. + +FILES +----- +When cloning submodules, a .gitmodules file in the top-level directory +of the containing repository is used to find the url of each submodule. +This file should be formatted in the same way as $GIR_DIR/config. The key +to each submodule url is "module.$path.url". + + +AUTHOR +------ +Written by Lars Hjemli + +GIT +--- +Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite -- cgit v1.2.3