The url, path, and update items in [submodule "foo"] stanzas are nicely explained in the .gitmodules and ‘git submodule’ documentation. Point there from the config documentation. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@xxxxxxxxx> --- It’s late, so I don’t trust this to be coherent English necessarily. Thoughts and improvements welcome. Documentation/config.txt | 9 +++++++++ 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt index 1029bc4..f1fb5ac 100644 --- a/Documentation/config.txt +++ b/Documentation/config.txt @@ -1685,6 +1685,15 @@ status.submodulesummary:: summary of commits for modified submodules will be shown (see --summary-limit option of linkgit:git-submodule[1]). +submodule.<name>.path:: +submodule.<name>.url:: +submodule.<name>.update:: + The path within this project, URL, and updating strategy + for a submodule. These variables are initially populated + by 'git submodule init'; edit them to override the + URL and other values found in the `.gitmodules` file. See + linkgit:git-submodule[1] and linkgit:gitmodules[5] for details. + tar.umask:: This variable can be used to restrict the permission bits of tar archive entries. The default is 0002, which turns off the -- 1.7.2.rc2 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html