Merge branch 'ph/rerere-doc' into maint-1.7.8

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

diff --git a/Documentation/git-submodule.txt b/Documentation/git-submodule.txt
index 67cf5f0f8b8a280891e47ecb7705d260bfc4232b..b72964947afcc39af3b97c5b9eeb1969b44e0d05 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-submodule.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-submodule.txt
@@ -79,7 +79,12 @@ to exist in the superproject. If <path> is not given, the
 <repository> is the URL of the new submodule's origin repository.
 This may be either an absolute URL, or (if it begins with ./
 or ../), the location relative to the superproject's origin
-repository. If the superproject doesn't have an origin configured
+repository (Please note that to specify a repository 'foo.git'
+which is located right next to a superproject 'bar.git', you'll
+have to use '../foo.git' instead of './foo.git' - as one might expect
+when following the rules for relative URLs - because the evaluation
+of relative URLs in Git is identical to that of relative directories).
+If the superproject doesn't have an origin configured
 the superproject is its own authoritative upstream and the current
 working directory is used instead.
 +
@@ -120,6 +125,8 @@ too (and can also report changes to a submodule's work tree).
 init::
        Initialize the submodules, i.e. register each submodule name
        and url found in .gitmodules into .git/config.
+       It will also copy the value of `submodule.$name.update` into
+       .git/config.
        The key used in .git/config is `submodule.$name.url`.
        This command does not alter existing information in .git/config.
        You can then customize the submodule clone URLs in .git/config
@@ -133,7 +140,7 @@ update::
        checkout the commit specified in the index of the containing repository.
        This will make the submodules HEAD be detached unless `--rebase` or
        `--merge` is specified or the key `submodule.$name.update` is set to
-       `rebase` or `merge`.
+       `rebase`, `merge` or `none`.
 +
 If the submodule is not yet initialized, and you just want to use the
 setting as stored in .gitmodules, you can automatically initialize the
@@ -141,6 +148,10 @@ submodule with the `--init` option.
 +
 If `--recursive` is specified, this command will recurse into the
 registered submodules, and update any nested submodules within.
++
+If the configuration key `submodule.$name.update` is set to `none` the
+submodule with name `$name` will not be updated by default. This can be
+overriden by adding `--checkout` to the command.
 
 summary::
        Show commit summary between the given commit (defaults to HEAD) and