Subject: missing git documentation for "git clone --recursive"

From: [email-masked]
Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2026 21:34:48 +0100

Hi,

I am missing the argument "--recursive" for the git clone command in the 
git-clone documentation

https://git-scm.com/docs/git-clone

Is this --recursive argument outdated? In some projects there is the 
following command in the documentation that clones the repository 
including init and update submodules:

git clone --recursive (url)

In the git documentation only "--recurse-submodules" is mentioned as 
allowed argument, but not "--recursive".

Thanks

Markus