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From: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] --disassociate alias for --dissociate clone option
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2015 17:01:13 -0500
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On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 2:10 PM, Matt Whiteley <mattwhiteley@gmail.com> wrote:
> I find the new --dissociate option for clone very helpful but I have a
> hard time with the spelling. It seems reasonable to have an alias since
> one exists for --recursive.

You may be undermining your own argument for inclusion of a new
--dissociate option by citing the aliased "recursive" option.

git-clone's --recursive-submodules was added (see ccdd3da6) for
disambiguation long after --recursive; and not the other way around
with --recursive being more convenient or easier to remember or spell
than --recursive-submodules. The implication of ccdd3da6 is that
--recursive-submodules is favored over --recursive (and perhaps the
latter may some day be deprecated).