From: Jens Lehmann <jens.lehmann@web.de>
Date: Tue, 02 Nov 2010 13:42:48 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v2 0/3] Documentation: refactor config variable descriptions
Message-ID: <4CD01558.7030701@web.de>
In-Reply-To: <201010251444.08780.jnareb@gmail.com>

Am 25.10.2010 14:44, schrieb Jakub Narebski:
> 1. Without checking for CONFIGURATION sections, we have what are 
>    probably false positives from gitmodules.txt:
> 
>      submodule.<name>.path::
>      submodule.<name>.url::
>      submodule.<name>.update::
>      submodule.<name>.ignore::
> 
>    I say *probably* because while gitmodules manpage describes those 
>    variables as going into .gitmodules, if I understand it correctly
>    those variables can got to .git/config as an override.

AFAICS only 'path' won't show up in .git/config. 'url' and 'update'
are copied into .git/config by "git submodule init", 'ignore' might
be added by a developer to override the setting from .gitmodules.