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[]
-j::
recursion (such as settings in linkgit:gitmodules[5] and
linkgit:git-config[1]) override this option, as does
specifying --[no-]recurse-submodules directly.
-endif::git-pull[]
-u::
--update-head-ok::
to communicate with 'git fetch', and unless you are
implementing your own Porcelain you are not supposed to
use it.
+endif::git-pull[]
--upload-pack <upload-pack>::
When given, and the repository to fetch from is handled