On 12/01, Ralf Thielow wrote: > Today I played around a bit with git submodules and noticed > that the very handy configuration "submodule.recurse" is not > working for the git-clone command. > > "git help config" tells me that submodule.recurse affects > all commands that have a --recurse-submodules option. > git-clone seems to be an exception which is also mentioned in > a workflow example in Documentation/gitsubmodules.txt that > says: > > # Unlike the other commands below clone still needs > # its own recurse flag: > git clone --recurse <URL> <directory> > cd <directory> > > So this seems to be a known issue. Is someone already > working on this or has a plan to do it? Or is there a reason > not doing this for git-clone but for git-pull?
When we introduced the "submodule.recurse" config we explicitly had it not work with clone because a recursive clone ends up pulling data from other sources aside from the URL the user explicitly provides. Historically there have been a number of security related bugs with respect to cloning submodules so we felt it was best to require a recursive clone to be requested explicitly, at least for the time being. -- Brandon Williams
