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| author | Damien Robert <damien.olivier.robert@gmail.com> | 2020-04-06 16:57:07 +0300 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2020-04-06 23:42:43 +0300 |
| commit | d09bc51428274bbb03669e4fb33f74b4edbe40dd (patch) | |
| tree | 10025c4d77c78816b52c605ea854126d48f89457 /Documentation/config/submodule.txt | |
| parent | b3cec57338db7b01681716d072f36c29b7f770f4 (diff) | |
doc: explain how to deactivate submodule.recurse completely
Signed-off-by: Damien Robert <damien.olivier.robert+git@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/config/submodule.txt | 7 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/config/submodule.txt b/Documentation/config/submodule.txt index 5962f41ead..d7a63c8c12 100644 --- a/Documentation/config/submodule.txt +++ b/Documentation/config/submodule.txt @@ -63,6 +63,13 @@ submodule.recurse:: (`checkout`, `fetch`, `grep`, `pull`, `push`, `read-tree`, `reset`, `restore` and `switch`) except `clone` and `ls-files`. Defaults to false. + When set to true, it can be deactivated via the + `--no-recurse-submodules` option. Note that some Git commands + lacking this option may call some of the above commands affected by + `submodule.recurse`; for instance `git remote update` will call + `git fetch` but does not have a `--no-recurse-submodules` option. + For these commands a workaround is to temporarily change the + configuration value by using `git -c submodule.recurse=0`. submodule.fetchJobs:: Specifies how many submodules are fetched/cloned at the same time. |