From e7220c40b175561a276285e95f3fe8c7a86204f2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stefan Beller Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2015 12:41:02 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] document submodule sync --recursive The git-submodule(1) is inconsistent. In the synopsis, it says: git submodule [--quiet] sync [--recursive] [--] [...] The description of the sync does not mention --recursive, and the description of --recursive says that it is only available for foreach, update and status. The option was introduced (82f49f294c, Teach --recursive to submodule sync, 2012-10-26) a while ago, so let's document it, too. Reported-by: Per Cederqvist Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- Documentation/git-submodule.txt | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Documentation/git-submodule.txt b/Documentation/git-submodule.txt index f17687e09d..1572f058f5 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-submodule.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-submodule.txt @@ -237,6 +237,9 @@ sync:: + "git submodule sync" synchronizes all submodules while "git submodule sync \-- A" synchronizes submodule "A" only. ++ +If `--recursive` is specified, this command will recurse into the +registered submodules, and sync any nested submodules within. OPTIONS ------- @@ -364,7 +367,7 @@ the submodule itself. for linkgit:git-clone[1]'s `--reference` and `--shared` options carefully. --recursive:: - This option is only valid for foreach, update and status commands. + This option is only valid for foreach, update, status and sync commands. Traverse submodules recursively. The operation is performed not only in the submodules of the current repo, but also in any nested submodules inside those submodules (and so on).