From: Jonathan Nieder Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2011 07:41:57 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] git pull: Remove option handling done by fetch Message-ID: <20110207074157.GA2736@elie> In-Reply-To: <4D4F273C.8030003@web.de> Jens Lehmann wrote: > 2) Document "--[no-]recurse-submodules" as " as "git pull" options > > (And then I can later pass the same option to "git merge", which is > much better than the solutions I came up with ;-) Hmm. :) [...] > --- a/Documentation/git-pull.txt > +++ b/Documentation/git-pull.txt > @@ -84,6 +84,10 @@ must be given before the options meant for 'git fetch'. > --verbose:: > Pass --verbose to git-fetch and git-merge. > > +--[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]). > + Is it worth mentioning that this does not (yet) automatically check out the new commits in submodules after a merge, or would such documentation be too likely to be forgotten and left stale in the future?