doc: list all commands affected by submodule.recurse

Damien Robert · gitster · commit dd0cb7dffabf · 2020-04-06T13:42:43.000-07:00
Note that `ls-files` is not affected, even though it has a
`--recurse-submodules` option, so list it as an exception too.

Signed-off-by: Damien Robert &lt;damien.olivier.robert+git@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano &lt;gitster@pobox.com&gt;
diff --git a/Documentation/config/submodule.txt b/Documentation/config/submodule.txt
@@ -59,8 +59,9 @@ submodule.active::
 
 submodule.recurse::
 	Specifies if commands recurse into submodules by default. This
-	applies to all commands that have a `--recurse-submodules` option,
-	except `clone`.
+	applies to all commands that have a `--recurse-submodules` option
+	(`checkout`, `fetch`, `grep`, `pull`, `push`, `read-tree`, `reset`,
+	`restore` and `switch`) except `clone` and `ls-files`.
 	Defaults to false.
 
 submodule.fetchJobs::
diff --git a/Documentation/gitsubmodules.txt b/Documentation/gitsubmodules.txt
@@ -271,7 +271,8 @@ will not be checked out by default; You can instruct 'clone' to recurse
 into submodules. The 'init' and 'update' subcommands of 'git submodule'
 will maintain submodules checked out and at an appropriate revision in
 your working tree. Alternatively you can set 'submodule.recurse' to have
-'checkout' recursing into submodules.
+'checkout' recursing into submodules (note that 'submodule.recurse' also
+affects other git commands, see linkgit:git-config[1] for a complete list).
 
 
 SEE ALSO
