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diff --git a/Documentation/fetch-options.txt b/Documentation/fetch-options.txt index f37276e..39d326a 100644 --- a/Documentation/fetch-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/fetch-options.txt @@ -65,14 +65,33 @@ ifndef::git-pull[] specified with the remote.<name>.tagopt setting. See linkgit:git-config[1]. ---[no-]recurse-submodules:: - This option controls if new commits of all populated submodules should - be fetched too (see linkgit:git-config[1] and linkgit:gitmodules[5]). +--recurse-submodules[=yes|on-demand|no]:: + This option controls if and under what conditions new commits of + populated submodules should be fetched too. It can be used as a + boolean option to completely disable recursion when set to 'no' or to + unconditionally recurse into all populated submodules when set to + 'yes', which is the default when this option is used without any + value. Use 'on-demand' to only recurse into a populated submodule + when the superproject retrieves a commit that updates the submodule's + reference to a commit that isn't already in the local submodule + clone. + +--no-recurse-submodules:: + Disable recursive fetching of submodules (this has the same effect as + using the '--recurse-submodules=no' option). --submodule-prefix=<path>:: Prepend <path> to paths printed in informative messages such as "Fetching submodule foo". This option is used internally when recursing over submodules. + +--recurse-submodules-default=[yes|on-demand]:: + This option is used internally to temporarily provide a + non-negative default value for the --recurse-submodules + option. All other methods of configuring fetch's submodule + recursion (such as settings in linkgit:gitmodules[5] and + linkgit:git-config[1]) override this option, as does + specifying --[no-]recurse-submodules directly. endif::git-pull[] -u:: |