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| author | Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de> | 2011-03-06 23:11:48 +0100 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2011-03-09 13:10:35 -0800 |
| commit | 1fb2550202d6f88d90121624c1fac0b81ff8c33f (patch) | |
| tree | 8c0ec680547c297a8cc9bf9a6f8313c89d3d0eec /Documentation | |
| parent | 8f0700dd33f63e594b9b34c84efe94e670ea4f45 (diff) | |
| download | git-1fb2550202d6f88d90121624c1fac0b81ff8c33f.tar.gz git-1fb2550202d6f88d90121624c1fac0b81ff8c33f.tar.xz | |
config: teach the fetch.recurseSubmodules option the 'on-demand' value
To enable the user to change the default behavior of "git fetch" and "git
pull" regarding submodule recursion add the new "on-demand" value which
has just been added to the "--recurse-submodules" command line option.
Signed-off-by: Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/config.txt | 10 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt index c5e183516..75b1d3228 100644 --- a/Documentation/config.txt +++ b/Documentation/config.txt @@ -900,9 +900,13 @@ diff.wordRegex:: characters are *ignorable* whitespace. fetch.recurseSubmodules:: - A boolean value which changes the behavior for fetch and pull, the - default is to not recursively fetch populated submodules unless - configured otherwise. + This option can be either set to a boolean value or to 'on-demand'. + Setting it to a boolean changes the behavior of fetch and pull to + unconditionally recurse into submodules when set to true or to not + recurse at all when set to false. When set to 'on-demand' (the default + value), fetch and pull will only recurse into a populated submodule + when its superproject retrieves a commit that updates the submodule's + reference. fetch.unpackLimit:: If the number of objects fetched over the git native |