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authorJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2015-12-11 11:14:17 -0800
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2015-12-11 11:14:17 -0800
commit17e5bcab715339a24b573ebc28349b9a9a3df0b8 (patch)
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parent63b3db71d8b7e7565ec154daf9acc6f83bcd6f3a (diff)
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Merge branch 'sb/doc-submodule-sync-recursive' into maint
* sb/doc-submodule-sync-recursive: document submodule sync --recursive
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-submodule.txt5
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-submodule.txt b/Documentation/git-submodule.txt
index f17687e09d..1572f058f5 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-submodule.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-submodule.txt
@@ -237,6 +237,9 @@ sync::
+
"git submodule sync" synchronizes all submodules while
"git submodule sync \-- A" synchronizes submodule "A" only.
++
+If `--recursive` is specified, this command will recurse into the
+registered submodules, and sync any nested submodules within.
OPTIONS
-------
@@ -364,7 +367,7 @@ the submodule itself.
for linkgit:git-clone[1]'s `--reference` and `--shared` options carefully.
--recursive::
- This option is only valid for foreach, update and status commands.
+ This option is only valid for foreach, update, status and sync commands.
Traverse submodules recursively. The operation is performed not
only in the submodules of the current repo, but also
in any nested submodules inside those submodules (and so on).