Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/technical/api-submodule-config.txt | 7 +++++-- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-submodule-config.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-submodule-config.txt index 768458580f..e06a3fd2de 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/api-submodule-config.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/api-submodule-config.txt @@ -55,8 +55,11 @@ Functions The same as above but lookup by name. -If given the null_sha1 as commit_or_tree the local configuration of a -submodule will be returned (e.g. consolidated values from local git +Whenever a submodule configuration is parsed in `parse_submodule_config_option` +via e.g. `gitmodules_config()`, it will be overwrite the null_sha1 entry. +So in the normal case, when HEAD:.gitmodules is parsed first and then overlayed +with the repository configuration, the null_sha1 entry contains the local +configuration of a submodule (e.g. consolidated values from local git configuration and the .gitmodules file in the worktree). For an example usage see test-submodule-config.c. -- 2.11.0.rc2.18.g0126045.dirty