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From:	Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To:	Vadim Eisenberg <VADIME@il.ibm.com>
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Subject: Re: [BUG REPORT] git 2.9.0 clone --recursive fails on cloning a
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On Sun, Jun 19, 2016 at 04:07:41PM +0300, Vadim Eisenberg wrote:

> The problem is with other tools that use git, like Swift Package Manager - 
> https://swift.org/package-manager/.
> Versions of git before 2.9.0 have no option --no-shallow-submodules. So 
> the tools that use git would have to check if the version of git is 
> greater than or equal 2.9.0 to know to specify that option.

Oh, I agree it's something we should treat as a regression. Using
`--no-shallow-submodules` is just a workaround.

-Peff