Re: [PATCH] doc: remove mentions of .gitmodules !command syntax

From: Petar Vutov <pvutov@imap.cc>
Date: Jul 13, 2023, 19:20 UTC
Message-ID: <7ce31744-8c9d-da75-126c-e92dfbb4cf16@imap.cc>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqa5w0swcs.fsf@gitster.g>

On 7/12/23 22:33, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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>      Side note: but is there a useful use case to set it to 'none' in
>      ".gitmodules" in the first place?  If there is not, saying that
>      "'none' is only useful in the configuration files" is not quite
>      wrong per-se.

A twisted person might use it to commit a truly empty folder, without even a .gitkeep file. Whether that's a useful use case, I don't know.

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> Sounds good.  s/available/allowed/, perhaps.
> 
>>   	none;; the submodule is not updated.
>> ++
>> +The `none` update procedure is only available via the .gitmodules file
>> +or the `submodule.<name>.update` configuration variable.
> 
> This side we do not need "only" anywhere in the sentence, do we?
> 
> Thanks.

I will address both of those and include your bugfix blurb in v3. Still figuring out how to properly reference the previous patches using git-send-email..