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[v2,1/3] git-submodule.txt: document default behavior without --branch

Message ID cf6e0d16ac0c0d521da98f5d9a53532b923a621c.1549521103.git.liu.denton@gmail.com (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Series Teach submodule set-branch subcommand | expand

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Denton Liu Feb. 7, 2019, 6:32 a.m. UTC
This behavior is mentioned in gitmodules.txt but not in
git-submodule.txt so we copy the information over so that it is not
missed.

Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
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 Documentation/git-submodule.txt | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
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diff --git a/Documentation/git-submodule.txt b/Documentation/git-submodule.txt
index ba3c4df550..9951c68744 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-submodule.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-submodule.txt
@@ -261,7 +261,8 @@  OPTIONS
 	The name of the branch is recorded as `submodule.<name>.branch` in
 	`.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.
+	same name as the current branch in the current repository.  If the
+	option is not specified, it defaults to 'master'.
 
 -f::
 --force::