Sorry it took me a while, I have been busy. I incorporated the two remarks by Philippe Blain on v4. We are converging! Damien Robert (5): doc: list all commands affected by submodule.recurse doc: document --recurse-submodules for reset and restore doc: explain how to deactivate submodule.recurse completely doc: be more precise on (fetch|push).recurseSubmodules doc: --recurse-submodules mostly applies to active submodules Documentation/config/fetch.txt | 13 ++++++++----- Documentation/config/push.txt | 2 ++ Documentation/config/submodule.txt | 12 ++++++++++-- Documentation/fetch-options.txt | 3 ++- Documentation/git-checkout.txt | 4 ++-- Documentation/git-grep.txt | 2 +- Documentation/git-ls-files.txt | 2 +- Documentation/git-pull.txt | 5 +++-- Documentation/git-read-tree.txt | 4 ++-- Documentation/git-reset.txt | 6 ++++++ Documentation/git-restore.txt | 11 +++++++++++ Documentation/git-switch.txt | 4 ++-- Documentation/gitsubmodules.txt | 3 ++- 13 files changed, 52 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-) -- Patched on top of v2.26.0-106-g9fadedd637 (git version 2.26.0)