Merge branch 'dr/doc-recurse-submodules'

[thirdparty/git.git] / Documentation / fetch-options.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/fetch-options.txt b/Documentation/fetch-options.txt
index 05709f67a105caf8965eed40cdd7f9f186366516..6e2a160a47cb8c07a72600d2fc7ad404bf2bc1c1 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/fetch-options.txt
+++ b/Documentation/fetch-options.txt
@@ -163,7 +163,8 @@ ifndef::git-pull[]
        value. Use 'on-demand' to only recurse into a populated submodule
        when the superproject retrieves a commit that updates the submodule's
        reference to a commit that isn't already in the local submodule
-       clone.
+       clone. By default, 'on-demand' is used, unless
+       `fetch.recurseSubmodules` is set (see linkgit:git-config[1]).
 endif::git-pull[]
 
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