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| author | Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> | 2016-11-22 23:14:38 +0300 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2016-11-23 01:43:04 +0300 |
| commit | f2627d9b19f91455a3f8b3c150da601cb72e4085 (patch) | |
| tree | 508adca3036b2d0937882a97eb5cea8ed9bf7624 /Documentation/technical | |
| parent | 73c293bb6c15992690b16c90bcac243a76d86400 (diff) | |
submodule-config: clarify parsing of null_sha1 element
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Reviewed-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/technical')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/technical/api-submodule-config.txt | 7 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-submodule-config.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-submodule-config.txt index 8285bcc605e..3dce003fda0 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/api-submodule-config.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/api-submodule-config.txt @@ -56,8 +56,11 @@ Functions The same as above but lookup by name. -If given the null_sha1 as treeish_name the local configuration of a -submodule will be returned (e.g. consolidated values from local git +Whenever a submodule configuration is parsed in `parse_submodule_config_option` +via e.g. `gitmodules_config()`, it will overwrite the null_sha1 entry. +So in the normal case, when HEAD:.gitmodules is parsed first and then overlayed +with the repository configuration, the null_sha1 entry contains the local +configuration of a submodule (e.g. consolidated values from local git configuration and the .gitmodules file in the worktree). For an example usage see test-submodule-config.c. |