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doc: clarify description of 'submodule.recurse'

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The doc for 'submodule.recurse' starts with "Specifies if commands
recurse into submodles by default". This is not exactly true of all
commands that have a '--recurse-submodules' option. For example, 'git
pull --recurse-submodules' does not run 'git pull' in each submodule,
but rather runs 'git submodule update --recursive' so that the submodule
working trees after the pull matches the commits recorded in the
superproject.

Clarify that by just saying that it enables '--recurse-submodules'.

Note that the way this setting interacts with 'fetch.recurseSubmodules'
and 'push.recurseSubmodules', which can have other values than true or
false, is already documented since 4da9e99e6e (doc: be more precise on
(fetch|push).recurseSubmodules, 2020-04-06).

Signed-off-by: Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Philippe Blain 2021-07-16 03:02:57 +00:00 committed by Junio C Hamano
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Documentation/config/submodule.txt
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@ -58,8 +58,9 @@ submodule.active::
commands. See linkgit:gitsubmodules[7] for details.
submodule.recurse::
Specifies if commands recurse into submodules by default. This
applies to all commands that have a `--recurse-submodules` option
A boolean indicating if commands should enable the `--recurse-submodules`
option by default.
Applies to all commands that support this option
(`checkout`, `fetch`, `grep`, `pull`, `push`, `read-tree`, `reset`,
`restore` and `switch`) except `clone` and `ls-files`.
Defaults to false.