manifest: add submanifest.default_groups attributev2.25

When the user does not specify any manifest groups, this allows the
parent manifest to indicate which manifest groups should be used for
syncing the submanifest.

Change-Id: I88806ed35013d13dd2ab3cd245fcd4f9061112c4
Reviewed-on: https://gerrit-review.googlesource.com/c/git-repo/+/335474
Tested-by: LaMont Jones <lamontjones@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@google.com>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/docs/manifest-format.md b/docs/manifest-format.md
index 6e671080..0d26296d 100644
--- a/docs/manifest-format.md
+++ b/docs/manifest-format.md
@@ -66,6 +66,7 @@ following DTD:
   <!ATTLIST submanifest revision       CDATA #IMPLIED>
   <!ATTLIST submanifest path           CDATA #IMPLIED>
   <!ATTLIST submanifest groups         CDATA #IMPLIED>
+  <!ATTLIST submanifest default-groups CDATA #IMPLIED>
 
   <!ELEMENT project (annotation*,
                      project*,
@@ -302,6 +303,9 @@ in the included submanifest belong. This appends and recurses, meaning
 all projects in submanifests carry all parent submanifest groups.
 Same syntax as the corresponding element of `project`.
 
+Attribute `default-groups`: The list of manifest groups to sync if no
+`--groups=` parameter was specified at init.  When that list is empty, use this
+list instead of "default" as the list of groups to sync.
 
 ### Element project