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Re: [PATCHv1] completion: add option '--recurse-submodules' to 'git clone'

From
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Jul 27, 2016, 17:21 UTC
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Chris Packham <judge.packham@gmail.com> writes:
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> Signed-off-by: Chris Packham <judge.packham@gmail.com>
> ---
> Hi,
>
> I noticed --recurse-submodules was missing from the bash completion. This adds
> it. I went for '--recurse-submodules' instead of '--recursive' as I seem to
> recall the former being agreed upon as the better (or least ambiguous) of the
> two terms.

Yup, that position is consistent with what 3446a54c (clone: fixup recurse_submodules option, 2011-02-11) gave us.

Perhaps we should think about deprecating "--recursive"?  I dunno.
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>  contrib/completion/git-completion.bash | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash b/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash
> index 37888f4..7c06455 100644
> --- a/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash
> +++ b/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash
> @@ -1136,6 +1136,7 @@ _git_clone ()
>  			--depth
>  			--single-branch
>  			--branch
> +			--recurse-submodules
>  			"
>  		return
>  		;;
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  1. Chris PackhamJul 27, 2016
  2. Junio C HamanoJul 27, 2016
  3. Junio C HamanoJul 27, 2016
  4. Stefan BellerJul 27, 2016
  5. Junio C HamanoJul 28, 2016
  6. Stefan BellerJul 29, 2016

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