Subject: Re: AW: PROBLEM: "git pull -v" fails with exit code denoting a submodule syntax error

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2022 08:27:13 +0900

"Nemmaier, Christoph" <[email-masked]> writes:

>> ...
>>>
>>>I suspect it is the same issue as the one that triggered
>>>
>>>
>>https://lore.kernel.org/git/[email-masked]/
>>>
>>>which came out recently?
>>
>>If that is the case, perhaps the -v needs to be documented in the online help if/when this condition is fixed.
>>
>
>
> Good morning,
>
> it pretty sure is. The doc goes like:
>
>> -v
>>--verbose
>>
>>    Pass --verbose to git-fetch and git-merge.
>
> Intentionally or not, git-submodule is not listed.
>
> Anyway, I think the doc is correct, as git submodule doesn't know
> '-v'. So either the internal call should drop '-v', or 'submodule'
> should ignore it.

Yes, <[email-masked]> cited above
is exactly about doing that.

The resulting 6f65f847 (submodule: accept -v for the update command,
2022-12-10) is about to hit 'next'.