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| author | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2019-12-05 12:52:45 -0800 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2019-12-05 12:52:45 -0800 |
| commit | ef6104581d9bfbe74ef99b52a72e436486001ead (patch) | |
| tree | 234a3bc788fabec5b906113150a67d36df85ae50 /Documentation | |
| parent | 7fd7a8ab29af952c8f6097ce8f22203a9d28d61a (diff) | |
| parent | f0e58b3fe85970cfac20cd10545dd91a65094887 (diff) | |
| download | git-ef6104581d9bfbe74ef99b52a72e436486001ead.tar.gz | |
Merge branch 'pb/submodule-update-fetches'
Doc update.
* pb/submodule-update-fetches:
doc: mention that 'git submodule update' fetches missing commits
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-submodule.txt | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-submodule.txt b/Documentation/git-submodule.txt index 1f46380af2..9de80a8252 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-submodule.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-submodule.txt @@ -133,7 +133,8 @@ update [--init] [--remote] [-N|--no-fetch] [--[no-]recommend-shallow] [-f|--forc + -- Update the registered submodules to match what the superproject -expects by cloning missing submodules and updating the working tree of +expects by cloning missing submodules, fetching missing commits +in submodules and updating the working tree of the submodules. The "updating" can be done in several ways depending on command line options and the value of `submodule.<name>.update` configuration variable. The command line option takes precedence over |