checkout the commit specified in the index of the containing repository.
This will make the submodules HEAD be detached unless `--rebase` or
`--merge` is specified or the key `submodule.$name.update` is set to
- `rebase`, `merge` or `none`.
+ `rebase`, `merge` or `none`. `none` can be overriden by specifying
+ `--checkout`.
+
If the submodule is not yet initialized, and you just want to use the
setting as stored in .gitmodules, you can automatically initialize the
+
If `--recursive` is specified, this command will recurse into the
registered submodules, and update any nested submodules within.
-+
-If the configuration key `submodule.$name.update` is set to `none` the
-submodule with name `$name` will not be updated by default. This can be
-overriden by adding `--checkout` to the command.
summary::
Show commit summary between the given commit (defaults to HEAD) and
the commit specified in the superproject. If 'merge', the commit
specified in the superproject will be merged into the current branch
in the submodule.
+ If 'none', the submodule with name `$name` will not be updated
+ by default.
+
This config option is overridden if 'git submodule update' is given
- the '--merge' or '--rebase' options.
+ the '--merge', '--rebase' or '--checkout' options.
submodule.<name>.fetchRecurseSubmodules::
This option can be used to control recursive fetching of this