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From: Andry <andry@inbox.ru>
To: Git <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [ISSUE] `git submodule update --init --recursive` does ignore  `fetchRecurseSubmodules` flag in `.gitmodules` and in `.git/config`
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2024 04:19:10 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <153002248.20240610041910@inbox.ru> (raw)

Hello Git,

First discovered here: https://github.com/gitextensions/gitextensions/issues/11783
Another discussion: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/58403616/does-git-submodule-update-recursive-override-fetchrecursesubmodules
Manual: https://git-scm.com/docs/gitmodules#Documentation/gitmodules.txt-submoduleltnamegtfetchRecurseSubmodules
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If use a recursive submodule, for example:

A->B->A->...

And call submodules Update on A, then the Update does ignore the flag and keeps fetch recursively with the error at the end:

>  fatal: Failed to recurse into submodule path ...

Is that supposed to work this way or is an bug?


             reply	other threads:[~2024-06-10  2:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-06-10  1:19 Andry [this message]
2024-06-10 22:02 ` [ISSUE] `git submodule update --init --recursive` does ignore `fetchRecurseSubmodules` flag in `.gitmodules` and in `.git/config` brian m. carlson

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