From: Chris Packham <judge.packham@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2015 08:51:54 GMT
Subject: Re: git-archive ignores submodules
Message-ID: <CAFOYHZAZvidjtTzyhF2_nD_bi27H-h=GT4F-MKm+h3RT5LB_gw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAL1ZDKbvNvTA3CFg5iWMYpOVDbxFwtpFCu+PO2onssO=+pw5XQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 7:59 AM, Pedro Rodrigues
<prodrigues1990@gmail.com> wrote:
<snip>

> Not completely off topic, but for consistency consider that:
> git-clone supports --recursive and --recurse-submodules, which do the
> same thing.
> git-pull and git-push only support --recurse-submodules.

It took a while to get the terminology sorted but the eventual
agreement[1] was "--recurse-submodules" was the best generally
applicable flag for all commands. For backwards compatibility some
commands that already had "--recursive" as an option have retained it

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[1] - http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/160634