git pull used to not parse the submodule.recurse config option and simply consider the --recurse-submodules CLI option. When using the config option, submodules would only be fetched recursively while the CLi option would tigger both fetch and update/merge. Reported-by: Magnus Homann <magnus@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Nicolas Morey-Chaisemartin <nicolas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- builtin/pull.c | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/builtin/pull.c b/builtin/pull.c index 7fe281414..e4edf23c5 100644 --- a/builtin/pull.c +++ b/builtin/pull.c @@ -326,6 +326,11 @@ static int git_pull_config(const char *var, const char *value, void *cb) config_autostash = git_config_bool(var, value); return 0; } + if (!strcmp(var, "submodule.recurse")) { + int r = git_config_bool(var, value) ? + RECURSE_SUBMODULES_ON : RECURSE_SUBMODULES_OFF; + recurse_submodules = r; + } return git_default_config(var, value, cb); } -- 2.14.1.460.g196d2604f