From: Henri GEIST Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2014 07:53:54 GMT Subject: [PATCH/RFC] Documentation: Say that submodule clones use a separate gitdirs. Message-ID: <1394178834.7891.38.camel@Naugrim> Adding a note in the submodule documentation signaling that the automatically cloned missing submodules are cloned with a separate gitdir. And where it is put. Signed-off-by: Henri GEIST --- Documentation/git-submodule.txt | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/git-submodule.txt b/Documentation/git-submodule.txt index 21cb59a..ea837fd 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-submodule.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-submodule.txt @@ -64,6 +64,11 @@ using the 'status' subcommand and get a detailed overview of the difference between the index and checkouts using the 'summary' subcommand. +*NOTE*: when submodule add or submodule update commands clone a missing +submodule, the option --separate-git-dir is passed to the clone command +and the gitdir of the submodule is placed outside of its working +directory in the .git/module of the current repository. + COMMANDS -------- -- 1.7.9.3.369.gd715.dirty