From: Sven Verdoolaege <skimo@kotnet.org>
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2007 09:31:16 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] clarify need for init in git-submodules documentation
Message-ID: <20070817093116.GH1070MdfPADPa@greensroom.kotnet.org>
In-Reply-To: <11872878021267-git-send-email-madduck@madduck.net>

On Thu, Aug 16, 2007 at 08:10:02PM +0200, martin f. krafft wrote:
> +The file .gitmodules serves default configuration data to users who cloned the
> +repository. In order to work with submodules, these data need to be copied to
> +$GIT_DIR/config with `git-submodule init`. Only the data in $GIT_DIR/config
> +are used for `git-submodule update`.
> +

This is not true.  The url (which is local information) is taken from .git/config,
the name/path relation (which is shared information) is taken from .gitmodules.

skimo

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