submodule: teach set-branch subcommand

[thirdparty/git.git] / Documentation / git-submodule.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/git-submodule.txt b/Documentation/git-submodule.txt
index 4150148fa3ff5d054037f90d4fc3ecea5dd6d529..4daf14418074abe1b0c3cb5b720afe15e2576561 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-submodule.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-submodule.txt
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ SYNOPSIS
 'git submodule' [--quiet] init [--] [<path>...]
 'git submodule' [--quiet] deinit [-f|--force] (--all|[--] <path>...)
 'git submodule' [--quiet] update [<options>] [--] [<path>...]
+'git submodule' [--quiet] set-branch [<options>] [--] <path>
 'git submodule' [--quiet] summary [<options>] [--] [<path>...]
 'git submodule' [--quiet] foreach [--recursive] <command>
 'git submodule' [--quiet] sync [--recursive] [--] [<path>...]
@@ -168,6 +169,12 @@ submodule with the `--init` option.
 If `--recursive` is specified, this command will recurse into the
 registered submodules, and update any nested submodules within.
 --
+set-branch ((-d|--default)|(-b|--branch <branch>)) [--] <path>::
+       Sets the default remote tracking branch for the submodule. The
+       `--branch` option allows the remote branch to be specified. The
+       `--default` option removes the submodule.<name>.branch configuration
+       key, which causes the tracking branch to default to 'master'.
+
 summary [--cached|--files] [(-n|--summary-limit) <n>] [commit] [--] [<path>...]::
        Show commit summary between the given commit (defaults to HEAD) and
        working tree/index. For a submodule in question, a series of commits