From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2021 22:41:30 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/4] clone: update submodule.recurse in config when using --recurse-submodule
Message-ID: <xmqq5ywmtalh.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <pull.1006.v3.git.1627946590.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>

"Mahi Kolla via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@gmail.com> writes:

> When running 'git clone --recurse-submodules', developers expect various
> other commands such as 'pull' and 'checkout' to also run recursively into
> submodules.

Some developers might, but "developers expect" as if we speak for
everybody is a bold statement to make that needs to be
substantiated, I would think.  Is this something easy to make
opt-in, e.g. "git clone --recurse-submodules=sticky" or something?