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author | Damien Robert <damien.olivier.robert@gmail.com> | 2020-04-06 16:57:09 +0300 |
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committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2020-04-06 23:42:43 +0300 |
commit | acbfae32a31180d781357028af9aff8928672d4b (patch) | |
tree | bc737ce26e99375e3f6adbc5cbb0093f35ed906b /Documentation/git-switch.txt | |
parent | 4da9e99e6eaab24ef86c44642b0692669adacfeb (diff) |
doc: --recurse-submodules mostly applies to active submodules
The documentation refers to "initialized" or "populated" submodules,
to explain which submodules are affected by '--recurse-submodules', but
the real terminology here is 'active' submodules. Update the
documentation accordingly.
Some terminology:
- Active is defined in gitsubmodules(7), it only involves the
configuration variables 'submodule.active', 'submodule.<name>.active'
and 'submodule.<name>.url'. The function
submodule.c::is_submodule_active checks that a submodule is active.
- Populated means that the submodule's working tree is present (and the
gitfile correctly points to the submodule repository), i.e. either the
superproject was cloned with ` --recurse-submodules`, or the user ran
`git submodule update --init`, or `git submodule init [<path>]` and
`git submodule update [<path>]` separately which populated the
submodule working tree. This does not involve the 3 configuration
variables above.
- Initialized (at least in the context of the man pages involved in this
patch) means both "populated" and "active" as defined above, i.e. what
`git submodule update --init` does.
The --recurse-submodules option mostly affects active submodules. An
exception is `git fetch` where the option affects populated submodules.
As a consequence, in `git pull --recurse-submodules` the fetch affects
populated submodules, but the resulting working tree update only affects
active submodules.
In the documentation of `git-pull`, let's distinguish between the
fetching part which affects populated submodules, and the updating of
worktrees, which only affects active submodules.
Signed-off-by: Damien Robert <damien.olivier.robert+git@gmail.com>
Helped-by: Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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diff --git a/Documentation/git-switch.txt b/Documentation/git-switch.txt index 79dbc9624d..3759c3a265 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-switch.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-switch.txt @@ -181,7 +181,7 @@ name, the guessing is aborted. You can explicitly give a name with --recurse-submodules:: --no-recurse-submodules:: Using `--recurse-submodules` will update the content of all - initialized submodules according to the commit recorded in the + active submodules according to the commit recorded in the superproject. If nothing (or `--no-recurse-submodules`) is used, submodules working trees will not be updated. Just like linkgit:git-submodule[1], this will detach `HEAD` of the |