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git clone --recursive and URL overrides

Subject: git clone --recursive and URL overrides

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Christian Weiske· Jul 17, 2015, 08:48 UTC · lore

Hi,

I'm setting some URL overrides via

> -c foo.insteadof=bar

to "git clone --recursive", but they are not used in the subsequent submodule requests on git 1.9.1.

Is this expected behavior, or a bug?

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