On 04/11, Stefan Beller wrote: > The commit 31224cbdc7 (clone: recursive and reference option triggers > submodule alternates, 2016-08-17) argued for any further `submodule update` > to respect the initial setup. This is not the case if you only pass > '--reference[-if-able]' to the initial clone without instructing to > recurse into submodules. > > If there are submodules however the user is likely to later run > a 'submodule update --init' to obtain the submodules. In this case we > also want to have the references available. > So the idea is to keep the references around even if the user doesn't want to recurse immediately? -- Brandon Williams