On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 6:08 PM, brian m. carlson
[off-list ref] wrote:

On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 04:34:23PM -0800, Stefan Beller wrote:

quoted

+--[no-]recurse-submodules::
+     Using --recurse-submodules will update the content of all initialized
+     submodules according to the commit recorded in the superproject. If
+     local modifications in a submodule would be overwritten the checkout
+     will fail until `-f` is used. If nothing (or --no-recurse-submodules)

I would say "unless" instead of "until".  "Until" implies an ongoing
or repetitive action being interrupted, which isn't the case here.

eh, of course.