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authorJens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de>2012-06-13 18:50:10 +0200
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2013-12-26 11:59:05 -0800
commitd4fa852597ffab711675528f2baccb1a0fb3bc82 (patch)
tree7dc8adec59992ce41b57730fb3acca261ce25895 /Documentation
parentde40c413f0e600668db1ccbf5bdf34694c29843f (diff)
downloadgit-jl/submodule-recursive-checkout.tar.gz
Teach checkout to recursively checkout submodulesjl/submodule-recursive-checkout
Signed-off-by: Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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@@ -225,6 +225,14 @@ This means that you can use `git checkout -p` to selectively discard
edits from your current working tree. See the ``Interactive Mode''
section of linkgit:git-add[1] to learn how to operate the `--patch` mode.
+--[no-]recurse-submodules::
+ Using --recurse-submodules will update the content of all initialized
+ submodules according to the commit recorded in the superproject.If
+ local modifications in a submodule would be overwritten the checkout
+ will fail until `-f` is used. If nothing (or --no-recurse-submodules)
+ is used, the work trees of submodules will not be updated, only the
+ hash recorded in the superproject will be changed.
+
<branch>::
Branch to checkout; if it refers to a branch (i.e., a name that,
when prepended with "refs/heads/", is a valid ref), then that