Can git submodule update be made to fetch tags in submodules?

Question

I have a git repository which uses a submodule which I\'d like to point at an annotated tag, but when I do git submodule update new tags don\'t get fetched. I can g

Answer 1

Late answer here, but I'm surprised that no one mentioned git submodule foreach. This is basically the way I solved the exact problem you encountered:

git submodule foreach --recursive 'git fetch --tags'
git submodule update --recursive

--recursive flag is there to recurse into child submodules.