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Re: [PATCH] submodule: Improve documentation of update subcommand

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Feb 23, 2015, 20:25 UTC
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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
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>> +Update the registered submodules to match what the superproject
>> +expects by cloning missing submodules and updating the working tree of
>> +the submodules. The "updating" can be done in several ways depending
>> +on command line options and the value of `submodule.<name>.update`
>> +configuration variable. Supported update methods are:
>
> If you read the description of "--remote" (sorry, I didn't notice it
> until I formatted the result of this patch and tried to read the
> whole thing), we already use "update procedure" to mean these modes
> of updates collectively.  Either use "update procedures" here (and
> everywhere else in this patch where it is called "update method"),
> or adjust the existing "update procedure" to "update method".
> Either way is fine, but because "update procedure" is not wrong
> per-se, I think it would be better to use that phrasing that may
> already be familiar with the "git submodule" users.

Addendum. Your update to config.txt calls it "updating strategy". That also needs to be unified to clarify that we are talking about the same thing in these places to the readers.

Thanks.
Previous: Junio C HamanoNext: Michal Sojka
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  1. submodule: Fix documentation of update subcommandMichal Sojka, Nov 3, 2014
  2. Junio C HamanoNov 3, 2014
  3. Jens LehmannNov 3, 2014
  4. Junio C HamanoNov 3, 2014
  5. Michal SojkaNov 3, 2014
  6. Junio C HamanoNov 3, 2014
  7. Jens LehmannNov 4, 2014
  8. Junio C HamanoNov 4, 2014
  9. Junio C HamanoNov 3, 2014
  10. Jens LehmannNov 3, 2014
  11. Junio C HamanoFeb 17, 2015
  12. submodule: Fix documentation of update subcommandMichal Sojka, Feb 18, 2015
  13. Junio C HamanoFeb 18, 2015
  14. Michal SojkaFeb 19, 2015
  15. submodule: Improve documentation of update subcommandMichal Sojka, Feb 19, 2015
  16. Junio C HamanoFeb 20, 2015
  17. Michal SojkaFeb 23, 2015
  18. submodule: Improve documentation of update subcommandMichal Sojka, Feb 23, 2015
  19. Junio C HamanoFeb 23, 2015
  20. Junio C HamanoFeb 23, 2015
  21. Michal SojkaMar 2, 2015
  22. submodule: Improve documentation of update subcommandMichal Sojka, Mar 2, 2015
  23. submodule: Improve documentation of update subcommandMichal Sojka, Mar 2, 2015
  24. Junio C HamanoMar 2, 2015
  25. Michal SojkaNov 3, 2014

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