This patch documents the default behavior of submodule if no subcommands
are given, similar to how remote documents it in both git-remote.txt and
in its usage output.
Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@xxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/git-submodule.txt | 4 ++++
git-submodule.sh | 3 ++-
2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-submodule.txt b/Documentation/git-submodule.txt
index 65a952fb96..2fdf9f4cf3 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-submodule.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-submodule.txt
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ git-submodule - Initialize, update or inspect submodules
SYNOPSIS
--------
[verse]
+'git submodule' [--quiet] [--cached]
'git submodule' [--quiet] 'add' [<options>] [--] <repository> [<path>]
'git submodule' [--quiet] 'status' [--cached] [--recursive] [--] [<path>...]
'git submodule' [--quiet] 'init' [--] [<path>...]
@@ -28,6 +29,9 @@ For more information about submodules, see linkgit:gitsubmodules[7].
COMMANDS
--------
+With no arguments, the default command is 'status'. Several subcommands are
+available to perform operations on the submodules.
+
add [-b <branch>] [-f|--force] [--name <name>] [--reference <repository>] [--depth <depth>] [--] <repository> [<path>]::
Add the given repository as a submodule at the given path
to the changeset to be committed next to the current
diff --git a/git-submodule.sh b/git-submodule.sh
index 5e608f8bad..1ccc758e79 100755
--- a/git-submodule.sh
+++ b/git-submodule.sh
@@ -5,7 +5,8 @@
# Copyright (c) 2007 Lars Hjemli
dashless=$(basename "$0" | sed -e 's/-/ /')
-USAGE="[--quiet] add [-b <branch>] [-f|--force] [--name <name>] [--reference <repository>] [--] <repository> [<path>]
+USAGE="[--quiet] [--cached]
+ or: $dashless [--quiet] add [-b <branch>] [-f|--force] [--name <name>] [--reference <repository>] [--] <repository> [<path>]
or: $dashless [--quiet] status [--cached] [--recursive] [--] [<path>...]
or: $dashless [--quiet] init [--] [<path>...]
or: $dashless [--quiet] deinit [-f|--force] (--all| [--] <path>...)
--
2.20.1.522.gd8785cdd01
