From: Jeff King Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2016 14:46:28 GMT Subject: Re: [BUG REPORT] git 2.9.0 clone --recursive fails on cloning a submodule Message-ID: <20160619144628.GA7402@sigill.intra.peff.net> In-Reply-To: On Sun, Jun 19, 2016 at 04:07:41PM +0300, Vadim Eisenberg wrote: > The problem is with other tools that use git, like Swift Package Manager - > https://swift.org/package-manager/. > Versions of git before 2.9.0 have no option --no-shallow-submodules. So > the tools that use git would have to check if the version of git is > greater than or equal 2.9.0 to know to specify that option. Oh, I agree it's something we should treat as a regression. Using `--no-shallow-submodules` is just a workaround. -Peff