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From: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Cc: gitster@pobox.com, larsxschneider@gmail.com,
	Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Subject: [PATCH] Documentation, git submodule: Note about --reference
Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2016 16:45:08 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160719234508.7717-1-sbeller@google.com> (raw)

Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
---

 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


             reply	other threads:[~2016-07-19 23:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-07-19 23:45 Stefan Beller [this message]
2016-07-26  0:38 ` [PATCH] Documentation, git submodule: Note about --reference Stefan Beller
2016-07-26  0:43   ` Junio C Hamano
2016-07-26  0:45     ` Stefan Beller

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