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From: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Cc: gitster@pobox.com, philipoakley@iee.org, hvoigt@hvoigt.net,
	Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Subject: [PATCH] glossary: add "remote", "submodule", "superproject"
Date: Wed, 27 May 2015 18:50:01 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1432777801-6073-1-git-send-email-sbeller@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGZ79kauSsZK3_X+zTwL8TKuZiHNMGvMZfoCemW9-K7RWgrgCA@mail.gmail.com>

Noticed-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
---
 Documentation/glossary-content.txt | 17 +++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/glossary-content.txt b/Documentation/glossary-content.txt
index bf383c2..23ab692 100644
--- a/Documentation/glossary-content.txt
+++ b/Documentation/glossary-content.txt
@@ -469,6 +469,11 @@ The most notable example is `HEAD`.
 	<<def_push,push>> to describe the mapping between remote
 	<<def_ref,ref>> and local ref.
 
+[[def_remote]]remote repository::
+	A <<def_repository,repository>> which is used to track the same
+	project but resides somewhere else. To communicate with remotes,
+	see <<def_fetch,fetch>> or <<def_push,push>>.
+
 [[def_remote_tracking_branch]]remote-tracking branch::
 	A <<def_ref,ref>> that is used to follow changes from another
 	<<def_repository,repository>>. It typically looks like
@@ -515,6 +520,18 @@ The most notable example is `HEAD`.
 	is created by giving the `--depth` option to linkgit:git-clone[1], and
 	its history can be later deepened with linkgit:git-fetch[1].
 
+[[def_submodule]]submodule::
+	A <<def_repository,repository>> that holds the history of a
+	separate project inside another repository (the latter of
+	which is called <<def_superproject, superproject>>). The
+	containing superproject knows about the names of (but does
+	not hold copies of) commit objects of the contained submodules.
+
+[[def_superproject]]superproject::
+	A <<def_repository,repository>> that references other repositories
+	inside itself as <<def_submodule,submodules>>. The superproject
+	tracks only the remote and the name of the submodule.
+
 [[def_symref]]symref::
 	Symbolic reference: instead of containing the <<def_SHA1,SHA-1>>
 	id itself, it is of the format 'ref: refs/some/thing' and when
-- 
2.4.1.345.gab207b6.dirty

  reply	other threads:[~2015-05-28  1:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-05-27 21:13 [PATCH] glossary: add "remote" and "submodule" Stefan Beller
2015-05-27 22:29 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-05-27 22:59   ` Stefan Beller
2015-05-27 23:05     ` Junio C Hamano
2015-05-27 23:29       ` Stefan Beller
2015-05-28  1:50         ` Stefan Beller [this message]
2015-05-28 16:45           ` [PATCH] glossary: add "remote", "submodule", "superproject" Junio C Hamano
2015-05-28 17:52             ` Stefan Beller
2015-05-28 18:50               ` Junio C Hamano
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2015-05-29 18:23 Stefan Beller

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