Thread (5 messages) 5 messages, 2 authors, 2021-09-14

[PATCH v1] git-clone.txt: add the --recursive option

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From: Alban Gruin <hidden>
Date: 2021-09-13 19:14:27
Subsystem: documentation, the rest · Maintainers: Jonathan Corbet, Linus Torvalds

This adds the --recursive option, an alias of --recurse-submodule, to
git-clone's manual page.

Signed-off-by: Alban Gruin <redacted>
---
I found this out when a friend told me he could not remember how to
fetch submodules with git-clone, and when another one suggested
`--recurse-submodule'.  I checked the man page, and I was surprised to
find out that `--recursive' is not mentionned at all.

I did not modify the synopsis.  So, this alias, although shorter than
the "real" option, would still be somewhat hidden in the man page.

 Documentation/git-clone.txt | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-clone.txt b/Documentation/git-clone.txt
index 3fe3810f1c..8a578252a0 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-clone.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-clone.txt
@@ -270,6 +270,7 @@ branch. This is useful e.g. to maintain minimal clones of the default
 branch of some repository for search indexing.
 
 --recurse-submodules[=<pathspec>]::
+--recursive[=<pathspec>]::
 	After the clone is created, initialize and clone submodules
 	within based on the provided pathspec.  If no pathspec is
 	provided, all submodules are initialized and cloned.
-- 
2.30.2
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