From: Damien Robert Date: Tue, 03 Mar 2020 22:04:09 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/5] doc: explain how to deactivate recurse.submodule completely Message-ID: <20200303220409.xebesh3ygbuwgwgo@doriath> In-Reply-To: <20200303170740.1879432-4-damien.olivier.robert+git@gmail.com> From Damien Robert, Tue 03 Mar 2020 at 18:07:38 (+0100) : > + When set to true, it can be deactivated by calling > + `--no-recurse-submodules`. Note that some Git commands without this > + option may call some of the above commands affected by > + `submodule.recurse`; for instance `git remote update` will call > + `git fetch` but does not have a `--no-recurse-submodules` option. > + since `submodule.recurse`. In this case a solution is to temporary ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Sorry this is a leftover from a previous formulation, I'll clean that up. > + change the configuration value by using `git -c submodule.recurse=0`.