From: markusd112@web.de
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: missing git documentation for "git clone --recursive"
Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2026 21:34:48 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ae4cb197-1edc-44c4-afbb-bbb24df509e8@web.de> (raw)
Hi,
I am missing the argument "--recursive" for the git clone command in the
git-clone documentation
https://git-scm.com/docs/git-clone
Is this --recursive argument outdated? In some projects there is the
following command in the documentation that clones the repository
including init and update submodules:
git clone --recursive (url)
In the git documentation only "--recurse-submodules" is mentioned as
allowed argument, but not "--recursive".
Thanks
Markus
next reply other threads:[~2026-02-09 20:34 UTC|newest]
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2026-02-09 20:34 markusd112 [this message]
2026-02-09 22:01 ` missing git documentation for "git clone --recursive" Junio C Hamano
2026-02-09 22:03 ` D. Ben Knoble
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