Hi, According to git-clone man page - running 'git clone --recursive' "...is equivalent to running 'git submodule update --init --recursive' immediately after the clone is finished...", though I found a little difference between the two regarding the submodule's .git file: 1. Running 'git clone' and 'git submodule update --init --recursive' separately will create the .git file in each submodule containing a relative path to the superproject's .git directory as expected. 2. Running 'git clone --recursive' will create the .git file containing an *absolute* path to the superproject's .git directory. (as it was expected using git versions 1.7.8 - 1.7.10 as far as I understand) Not sure if that's a bug but it got stuff behaving really weird in a specific usecase on one of our environments. It would be highly appreciated to update the docs at least. Thanks. -Loet -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html