submodule.<name>.branch::
A remote branch name for tracking updates in the upstream submodule.
- If the option is not specified, it defaults to 'master'. See the
- `--remote` documentation in linkgit:git-submodule[1] for details.
+ If the option is not specified, it defaults to 'master'. 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. See the `--remote` documentation in
+ linkgit:git-submodule[1] for details.
submodule.<name>.fetchRecurseSubmodules::
This option can be used to control recursive fetching of this