Can I configure git so that, when I git clone a repository, it recursesively clones the submodules, without me explicitly having to say --recurse-submodules?

Can I configure git so that, when I git clone a repository, it recursesively clones the submodules, without me explicitly having to say --recurse-submodules?

• git
• configuration
• git-submodules
• git-clone

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Nope, not for clone. See the docs for git config submodule.recurse: clone and ls-files are not supported.

You can define an alias but should train yourself to use the alias instead of clone:

git config alias.clonesub clone --recurse-submodules