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Re: Re: [RFC PATCH] clone: add clone.recursesubmodules config option

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W. Trevor King <wking@tremily.us>
Date
Jun 9, 2014, 23:27 UTC
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On Mon, Jun 09, 2014 at 03:17:07PM +0200, Jens Lehmann wrote:
> And by the way: wouldn't it make more sense to tell the user /what/
> we do automatically? So maybe 'submodule.autoupdate' is a better
> name for the new switch?

Or autocheckout? No need to preserve submodule-specific jargon when we have a perfectly acceptable word for this in the core interface ;).

Cheers, Trevor

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