doc: mention that 'git submodule update' fetches missing commits
'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@pobox.com> Helped-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Philippe Blain committed
Nov 23, 2019 at 21:01 UTC
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@@ -133,7 +133,8 @@ update [--init] [--remote] [-N|--no-fetch] [--[no-]recommend-shallow] [-f|--forc
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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