Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@xxxxxxxxxx> --- 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. -- 2.9.2.800.g213104a -- 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