Hi Ralf,
On 03.12.20 10:38, Ralf Thielow wrote:

Hi Peter,

Am Do., 3. Dez. 2020 um 09:20 Uhr schrieb Peter Kästle
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I can see the same misbehaviour when I run
$ git -c submodule.recurse=false fetch --recurse-submodules
too, so I think it doesn't have necessarily something to do with
the 'submodule.recursive' config, but with 'recurse submodules'
in general.

This is interesting.  There are several testcases using
"--recurse-submodules".  Have you tried, whether any of these trigger?

The test suite passes.

This is what I experienced.  Thus it is important to get your case into 
the test suite.  Could you please send us a command sequence how to 
create your repository structure from scratch, so that a test case can 
be created?  - Of course, if you want, you can also create a test case 
on your own.

-- 
kind regards
--peter;