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From:   Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To:     "Mahi Kolla via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>
Cc:     git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/4] clone: update submodule.recurse in config when
 using --recurse-submodule
References: <pull.1006.v2.git.1627943914.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>
        <pull.1006.v3.git.1627946590.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>
Date:   Tue, 03 Aug 2021 15:41:30 -0700
In-Reply-To: <pull.1006.v3.git.1627946590.gitgitgadget@gmail.com> (Mahi Kolla
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"Mahi Kolla via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@gmail.com> writes:

> When running 'git clone --recurse-submodules', developers expect various
> other commands such as 'pull' and 'checkout' to also run recursively into
> submodules.

Some developers might, but "developers expect" as if we speak for
everybody is a bold statement to make that needs to be
substantiated, I would think.  Is this something easy to make
opt-in, e.g. "git clone --recurse-submodules=sticky" or something?