[PATCH] Documentation, git submodule: Note about --reference
From: Stefan Beller <hidden>
Date: 2016-07-19 23:45:35
Subsystem:
documentation, the rest · Maintainers:
Jonathan Corbet, Linus Torvalds
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <redacted> --- Is it too obvious? I was approached off list and this was only obvious after some discussion, so I think it is a valid warning. On the other hand this might show that we want to get worktree working with submodules. Documentation/git-submodule.txt | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-submodule.txt b/Documentation/git-submodule.txt
index bf3bb37..dcbd460 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-submodule.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-submodule.txt@@ -373,6 +373,10 @@ the submodule itself. + *NOTE*: Do *not* use this option unless you have read the note for linkgit:git-clone[1]'s `--reference` and `--shared` options carefully. ++ +*NOTE*: This gives the same reference to all submodules, so it is only useful +if you are tracking different versions of a project in submodules instead +of different projects. --recursive:: This option is only valid for foreach, update, status and sync commands.
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