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From: Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v2 0/3] Documentation: refactor config variable descriptions
Date: Tue, 02 Nov 2010 14:42:48 +0100
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Am 25.10.2010 14:44, schrieb Jakub Narebski:
> 1. Without checking for CONFIGURATION sections, we have what are 
>    probably false positives from gitmodules.txt:
> 
>      submodule.<name>.path::
>      submodule.<name>.url::
>      submodule.<name>.update::
>      submodule.<name>.ignore::
> 
>    I say *probably* because while gitmodules manpage describes those 
>    variables as going into .gitmodules, if I understand it correctly
>    those variables can got to .git/config as an override.

AFAICS only 'path' won't show up in .git/config. 'url' and 'update'
are copied into .git/config by "git submodule init", 'ignore' might
be added by a developer to override the setting from .gitmodules.