Re: [PATCH] clarify need for init in git-submodules documentation

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MKmartin f krafft <madduck@madduck.net>

Date

Aug 17, 2007, 10:08 UTC

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<20070817100815.GC28477@piper.oerlikon.madduck.net>

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<20070817093116.GH1070MdfPADPa@greensroom.kotnet.org>

also sprach Sven Verdoolaege <skimo@kotnet.org> [2007.08.17.1131 +0200]:

> 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.

If you approve of this change, I shall prepare a new patch:

diff --git a/Documentation/git-submodule.txt b/Documentation/git-submodule.txt
index b1a4f95..2f69047 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-submodule.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-submodule.txt
@@ -71,8 +71,9 @@ to each submodule url is "submodule.$name.url".
 
 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 $GIT_DIR/config
-are used for `git-submodule update`.
+$GIT_DIR/config with `git-submodule init`. Only the URL in $GIT_DIR/config
+is used for `git-submodule update`, as it is local information. The name/path
+relation is taken from the .gitmodules file, as it is shared data.
 
 
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