git-commit-vandalism/Documentation/gitmodules.txt
Lars Hjemli a88ca34277 gitmodules(5): remove leading period from synopsis
Asciidoc treats a line starting with a period followed by a title as a
blocktitle element. My introduction of gitmodules(5) unfortunatly broke
the documentation build process due to this processing, since it made
asciidoc generate an illegal (empty) synopsis element. Removing the leading
period fixes the problem and also makes gitmodules(5) use the same synopsis
notation as gitattributes(5).

Noticed-by: Matthias Lederhofer <matled@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Lars Hjemli <hjemli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-06-15 22:46:04 -07:00

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gitmodules(5)
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NAME
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gitmodules - defining submodule properties
SYNOPSIS
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gitmodules
DESCRIPTION
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The `.gitmodules` file, located in the top-level directory of a git
working tree, is a text file with a syntax matching the requirements
of gitlink:git-config[1].
The file contains one subsection per submodule, and the subsection value
is the name of the submodule. Each submodule section also contains the
following required keys:
submodule.<name>.path::
Defines the path, relative to the top-level directory of the git
working tree, where the submodule is expected to be checked out.
The path name must not end with a `/`. All submodule paths must
be unique within the .gitmodules file.
submodule.<name>.url::
Defines an url from where the submodule repository can be cloned.
EXAMPLES
--------
Consider the following .gitmodules file:
[submodule "libfoo"]
path = include/foo
url = git://foo.com/git/lib.git
[submodule "libbar"]
path = include/bar
url = git://bar.com/git/lib.git
This defines two submodules, `libfoo` and `libbar`. These are expected to
be checked out in the paths 'include/foo' and 'include/bar', and for both
submodules an url is specified which can be used for cloning the submodules.
SEE ALSO
--------
gitlink:git-submodule[1] gitlink:git-config[1]
DOCUMENTATION
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Documentation by Lars Hjemli <hjemli@gmail.com>
GIT
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Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite