Merge branch 'sb/gpg-plug-fd-leak' into maint

[git.git] / Documentation / gitmodules.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/gitmodules.txt b/Documentation/gitmodules.txt
index 4effd789026e48085d6b0834cbef990968bedbb2..ab3e91c054ca7b4dcf7373b0aac839c18275a791 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/gitmodules.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitmodules.txt
@@ -18,7 +18,9 @@ working tree, is a text file with a syntax matching the requirements
 of linkgit: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
+is the name of the submodule. The name is set to the path where the
+submodule has been added unless it was customized with the '--name'
+option of 'git submodule add'. Each submodule section also contains the
 following required keys:
 
 submodule.<name>.path::