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-rw-r--r--Documentation/config/submodule.txt5
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/config/submodule.txt b/Documentation/config/submodule.txt
index d7a63c8c12..ee454f8126 100644
--- a/Documentation/config/submodule.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config/submodule.txt
@@ -58,8 +58,9 @@ submodule.active::
commands. See linkgit:gitsubmodules[7] for details.
submodule.recurse::
- Specifies if commands recurse into submodules by default. This
- applies to all commands that have a `--recurse-submodules` option
+ A boolean indicating if commands should enable the `--recurse-submodules`
+ option by default.
+ Applies to all commands that support this option
(`checkout`, `fetch`, `grep`, `pull`, `push`, `read-tree`, `reset`,
`restore` and `switch`) except `clone` and `ls-files`.
Defaults to false.