gative default value for the --recurse-submodules
option.  All other methods of configuring fetch&#8217;s submodule
recursion (such as settings in linkgit:gitmodules[5] and
linkgit:git-config[1]) override this option, as does
specifying --[no-]recurse-submodules directly.</p>
</dd>
<dt class="hdlist1">-u</dt>
<dt class="hdlist1">--update-head-ok</dt>
<dd>
<p>By default <em>git fetch</em> refuses to update the head which
corresponds to the current branch.  This flag disables the
check.  This is pu