[PATCH] gitmodules.5: url can be a relative path
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Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
- Date
- Jul 15, 2010, 07:41 UTC
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- <20100715074155.GA22244@burratino>
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There is already excellent documentation for this facility in git-submodule.1, but it is not so discoverable.
Relative paths in .gitmodules can be useful for serving the same repository over multiple protocols, for example. Thanks to Peter for pointing this out.
Cc: Peter Krefting <peter@softwolves.pp.se> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> --- Documentation/gitmodules.txt | 3 +++ 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/gitmodules.txt b/Documentation/gitmodules.txt index 5daf750..72a13d1 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitmodules.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitmodules.txt @@ -29,6 +29,9 @@ submodule.<name>.path:: submodule.<name>.url:: Defines an url from where the submodule repository can be cloned. + This may be either an absolute URL ready to be passed to + linkgit:git-clone[1] or (if it begins with ./ or ../) a location + relative to the superproject's origin repository. submodule.<name>.update:: Defines what to do when the submodule is updated by the superproject.
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