clone: teach --recurse-submodules to optionally take a pathspec

diff --git a/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt b/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt
index 7241e968935505cdb9d507ab910b35178fcbf3bd..91c02b8c856abf2c24af9ea23f0ee01710b8cd12 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt
@@ -217,6 +217,10 @@ If `$GIT_DIR` is not defined and the current directory
 is not detected to lie in a Git repository or work tree
 print a message to stderr and exit with nonzero status.
 
+--absolute-git-dir::
+       Like `--git-dir`, but its output is always the canonicalized
+       absolute path.
+
 --git-common-dir::
        Show `$GIT_COMMON_DIR` if defined, else `$GIT_DIR`.