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| author | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2012-01-03 21:48:00 (GMT) |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2012-01-03 21:48:00 (GMT) |
| commit | 228c3418356d06d0596408bee1c863e53ca27d58 (patch) | |
| tree | c31e492269375ccca3cc081b015d26c5f13769df /Documentation | |
| parent | 17b4e93d5b849293e6a3659bbc4075ed8a6e97e2 (diff) | |
| parent | bc0fe84b064d2185e147b7c1f98bb6f9b7966b2c (diff) | |
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Merge branch 'maint'
* maint:
docs: describe behavior of relative submodule URLs
fix hang in git fetch if pointed at a 0 length bundle
Documentation: read-tree --prefix works with existing subtrees
Add MYMETA.json to perl/.gitignore
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-read-tree.txt | 9 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-submodule.txt | 7 |
2 files changed, 10 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-read-tree.txt b/Documentation/git-read-tree.txt index 5375549..a43e874 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-read-tree.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-read-tree.txt @@ -83,11 +83,10 @@ OPTIONS --prefix=<prefix>/:: Keep the current index contents, and read the contents - of the named tree-ish under the directory at `<prefix>`. The - original index file cannot have anything at the path - `<prefix>` itself, nor anything in the `<prefix>/` - directory. Note that the `<prefix>/` value must end - with a slash. + of the named tree-ish under the directory at `<prefix>`. + The command will refuse to overwrite entries that already + existed in the original index file. Note that the `<prefix>/` + value must end with a slash. --exclude-per-directory=<gitignore>:: When running the command with `-u` and `-m` options, the diff --git a/Documentation/git-submodule.txt b/Documentation/git-submodule.txt index 6ec3fef..b729649 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-submodule.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-submodule.txt @@ -79,7 +79,12 @@ to exist in the superproject. If <path> is not given, the <repository> is the URL of the new submodule's origin repository. This may be either an absolute URL, or (if it begins with ./ or ../), the location relative to the superproject's origin -repository. If the superproject doesn't have an origin configured +repository (Please note that to specify a repository 'foo.git' +which is located right next to a superproject 'bar.git', you'll +have to use '../foo.git' instead of './foo.git' - as one might expect +when following the rules for relative URLs - because the evaluation +of relative URLs in Git is identical to that of relative directories). +If the superproject doesn't have an origin configured the superproject is its own authoritative upstream and the current working directory is used instead. + |