doc: --recurse-submodules mostly applies to active submodules

The documentation refers to "initialized" or "populated" submodules,
to explain which submodules are affected by '--recurse-submodules', but
the real terminology here is 'active' submodules. Update the
documentation accordingly.

Some terminology:
- Active is defined in gitsubmodules(7), it only involves the
  configuration variables 'submodule.active', 'submodule.<name>.active'
  and 'submodule.<name>.url'. The function
  submodule.c::is_submodule_active checks that a submodule is active.
- Populated means that the submodule's working tree is present (and the
  gitfile correctly points to the submodule repository), i.e. either the
  superproject was cloned with ` --recurse-submodules`, or the user ran
  `git submodule update --init`, or `git submodule init [<path>]` and
  `git submodule update [<path>]` separately which populated the
  submodule working tree. This does not involve the 3 configuration
  variables above.
- Initialized (at least in the context of the man pages involved in this
  patch) means both "populated" and "active" as defined above, i.e. what
  `git submodule update --init` does.

The --recurse-submodules option mostly affects active submodules. An
exception is `git fetch` where the option affects populated submodules.
As a consequence, in `git pull --recurse-submodules` the fetch affects
populated submodules, but the resulting working tree update only affects
active submodules.

In the documentation of `git-pull`, let's distinguish between the
fetching part which affects populated submodules, and the updating of
worktrees, which only affects active submodules.

Signed-off-by: Damien Robert <damien.olivier.robert+git@gmail.com>
Helped-by: Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Damien Robert 2020-04-06 15:57:09 +02:00 committed by Junio C Hamano
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@ -292,7 +292,7 @@ Note that this option uses the no overlay mode by default (see also
--recurse-submodules::
--no-recurse-submodules::
Using `--recurse-submodules` will update the content of all initialized
Using `--recurse-submodules` will update the content of all active
submodules according to the commit recorded in the superproject. If
local modifications in a submodule would be overwritten the checkout
will fail unless `-f` is used. If nothing (or `--no-recurse-submodules`)

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@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ OPTIONS
with `--no-index`.
--recurse-submodules::
Recursively search in each submodule that has been initialized and
Recursively search in each submodule that is active and
checked out in the repository. When used in combination with the
<tree> option the prefix of all submodule output will be the name of
the parent project's <tree> object. This option has no effect

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@ -148,7 +148,7 @@ a space) at the start of each line:
top directory.
--recurse-submodules::
Recursively calls ls-files on each submodule in the repository.
Recursively calls ls-files on each active submodule in the repository.
Currently there is only support for the --cached mode.
--abbrev[=<n>]::

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@ -85,8 +85,10 @@ OPTIONS
Pass --verbose to git-fetch and git-merge.
--[no-]recurse-submodules[=yes|on-demand|no]::
This option controls if new commits of all populated submodules should
be fetched and updated, too (see linkgit:git-fetch[1], linkgit:git-config[1] and linkgit:gitmodules[5]).
This option controls if new commits of populated submodules should
be fetched, and if the working trees of active submodules should be
updated, too (see linkgit:git-fetch[1], linkgit:git-config[1] and
linkgit:gitmodules[5]).
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If the checkout is done via rebase, local submodule commits are rebased as well.
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@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ OPTIONS
located in.
--[no-]recurse-submodules::
Using --recurse-submodules will update the content of all initialized
Using --recurse-submodules will update the content of all active
submodules according to the commit recorded in the superproject by
calling read-tree recursively, also setting the submodules' HEAD to be
detached at that commit.

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@ -181,7 +181,7 @@ name, the guessing is aborted. You can explicitly give a name with
--recurse-submodules::
--no-recurse-submodules::
Using `--recurse-submodules` will update the content of all
initialized submodules according to the commit recorded in the
active submodules according to the commit recorded in the
superproject. If nothing (or `--no-recurse-submodules`) is
used, submodules working trees will not be updated. Just
like linkgit:git-submodule[1], this will detach `HEAD` of the