docs/manual: document FOO_GIT_SUBMODULE

[Peter: fix typo as noticed by Samuel]
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>

diff --git a/docs/manual/adding-packages-generic.txt b/docs/manual/adding-packages-generic.txt
index de8aca20b53abe9c008937b9787cca920d961a58..f18465b851078effb12af1dce5407595822fc087 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/manual/adding-packages-generic.txt
+++ b/docs/manual/adding-packages-generic.txt
@@ -310,6 +310,12 @@ information is (assuming the package name is +libfoo+) :
      the package source code. Buildroot copies the contents of the
      source directory into the package's build directory.
 
+* +LIBFOO_GIT_SUBMODULES+, when +LIBFOO_SITE_METHOD=git+, will create
+  an archive with the git submodules in the repository.
+  Note that we try not to use such git submodules when they contain
+  bundled libraries, in which case we prefer to use those libraries
+  from their own package.
+
 * +LIBFOO_STRIP_COMPONENTS+ is the number of leading components
   (directories) that tar must strip from file names on extraction.
   The tarball for most packages has one leading component named