Merge branch 'ab/submodule-foreach-toplevel'

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

diff --git a/Documentation/git-submodule.txt b/Documentation/git-submodule.txt
index 2502531a3dfd0cee67f6d1d9fc1db1d69cf20e30..cdabfd29add5752caab24a1715427c0e4eba9a11 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-submodule.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-submodule.txt
@@ -145,10 +145,12 @@ summary::
 
 foreach::
        Evaluates an arbitrary shell command in each checked out submodule.
-       The command has access to the variables $name, $path and $sha1:
+       The command has access to the variables $name, $path, $sha1 and
+       $toplevel:
        $name is the name of the relevant submodule section in .gitmodules,
        $path is the name of the submodule directory relative to the
-       superproject, and $sha1 is the commit as recorded in the superproject.
+       superproject, $sha1 is the commit as recorded in the superproject,
+       and $toplevel is the absolute path to the top-level of the superproject.
        Any submodules defined in the superproject but not checked out are
        ignored by this command. Unless given --quiet, foreach prints the name
        of each submodule before evaluating the command.