Submodules: Add the "fetchRecurseSubmodules" config option

diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index 05ec3fed893b8c179bab2b41f35c34af5ce05b20..bb17432ea748332678fb62fbee0ac36c27aaef7e 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -862,6 +862,11 @@ diff.wordRegex::
        sequences that match the regular expression are "words", all other
        characters are *ignorable* whitespace.
 
+fetch.recurseSubmodules::
+       A boolean value which changes the behavior for fetch and pull, the
+       default is to not recursively fetch populated sumodules unless
+       configured otherwise.
+
 fetch.unpackLimit::
        If the number of objects fetched over the git native
        transfer is below this
@@ -1763,6 +1768,13 @@ submodule.<name>.update::
        URL and other values found in the `.gitmodules` file.  See
        linkgit:git-submodule[1] and linkgit:gitmodules[5] for details.
 
+submodule.<name>.fetchRecurseSubmodules::
+       This option can be used to enable/disable recursive fetching of this
+       submodule. It can be overriden by using the --[no-]recurse-submodules
+       command line option to "git fetch" and "git pull".
+       This setting will override that from in the linkgit:gitmodules[5]
+       file.
+
 submodule.<name>.ignore::
        Defines under what circumstances "git status" and the diff family show
        a submodule as modified. When set to "all", it will never be considered