fetch/pull: recurse into submodules when necessary

[git.git] / Documentation / fetch-options.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/fetch-options.txt b/Documentation/fetch-options.txt
index f37276e5add75583fd363af2cd0b7ba051771a97..bde62d467f1a04eecdc297ae1efa51781d50226b 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/fetch-options.txt
+++ b/Documentation/fetch-options.txt
@@ -73,6 +73,14 @@ ifndef::git-pull[]
        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[]
 
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