work around buggy S_ISxxx(m) implementations

[git.git] / Documentation / git-submodule.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/git-submodule.txt b/Documentation/git-submodule.txt
index cdabfd29add5752caab24a1715427c0e4eba9a11..1ed331c599d4b492b0dec112332bb83db5506d74 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-submodule.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-submodule.txt
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ git-submodule - Initialize, update or inspect submodules
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
 [verse]
-'git submodule' [--quiet] add [-b branch]
+'git submodule' [--quiet] add [-b branch] [-f|--force]
              [--reference <repository>] [--] <repository> [<path>]
 'git submodule' [--quiet] status [--cached] [--recursive] [--] [<path>...]
 'git submodule' [--quiet] init [--] [<path>...]
@@ -183,6 +183,11 @@ OPTIONS
 --branch::
        Branch of repository to add as submodule.
 
+-f::
+--force::
+       This option is only valid for the add command.
+       Allow adding an otherwise ignored submodule path.
+
 --cached::
        This option is only valid for status and summary commands.  These
        commands typically use the commit found in the submodule HEAD, but