'git submodule update' will fetch new commits from the submodule remote if the SHA-1 recorded in the superproject is not found. This was not mentioned in the documentation. Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> Helped-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> --- Changes since v1 [4]: - Added my signed-off, corrected my email address and shortened the title of the commit message (I had actually done that when I resent my patch in [1] using submitGit, but this dit not add the "v2" prefix) - Added Junio's suggestion [2] (which was applied in [3] on top of the original submission [4] instead of the revised one [1]), and squashed - Added Helped-by trailers - Rebased on v2.23.0 (as was done for [3]) [1] https://public-inbox.org/git/0102016b72a55a7d-fb4ecdb7-9f2b-4204-b888-0000f209c3ff-000000@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/ [2] https://public-inbox.org/git/xmqq8sobdzul.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/ [3] https://github.com/gitster/git/commits/pb/submodule-update-fetches [4] https://public-inbox.org/git/0102016a2274c90f-3dbf792f-5b0a-4da4-ada0-9a163a14e68d-000000@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/ Documentation/git-submodule.txt | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Documentation/git-submodule.txt b/Documentation/git-submodule.txt index 0ed5c24dc1..4beb569ae5 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-submodule.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-submodule.txt @@ -133,7 +133,8 @@ update [--init] [--remote] [-N|--no-fetch] [--[no-]recommend-shallow] [-f|--forc + -- Update the registered submodules to match what the superproject -expects by cloning missing submodules and updating the working tree of +expects by cloning missing submodules, fetching missing commits +in submodules and updating the working tree of the submodules. The "updating" can be done in several ways depending on command line options and the value of `submodule.<name>.update` configuration variable. The command line option takes precedence over -- 2.23.0
