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Recent git allows submodule.<name>.branch to use a special token
"." instead of the branch name; the documentation has been updated
to describe it.

* bw/submodule-branch-dot-doc:
  submodules doc: update documentation for "." used for submodule branches
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Junio C Hamano 2016-10-26 13:14:49 -07:00
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@ -259,7 +259,9 @@ OPTIONS
--branch::
Branch of repository to add as submodule.
The name of the branch is recorded as `submodule.<name>.branch` in
`.gitmodules` for `update --remote`.
`.gitmodules` for `update --remote`. A special value of `.` is used to
indicate that the name of the branch in the submodule should be the
same name as the current branch in the current repository.
-f::
--force::

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@ -50,8 +50,11 @@ submodule.<name>.update::
submodule.<name>.branch::
A remote branch name for tracking updates in the upstream submodule.
If the option is not specified, it defaults to 'master'. See the
`--remote` documentation in linkgit:git-submodule[1] for details.
If the option is not specified, it defaults to 'master'. A special
value of `.` is used to indicate that the name of the branch in the
submodule should be the same name as the current branch in the
current repository. See the `--remote` documentation in
linkgit:git-submodule[1] for details.
submodule.<name>.fetchRecurseSubmodules::
This option can be used to control recursive fetching of this