Git submodule init async

Question

When I run git submodule update --init first time on a projects which have a lot of submodules, this usually take a lot of time, because most of submodules are stor

Answer 1

Update January 2016:

With Git 2.8 (Q1 2016), you will be able to fetch submodules in parallel (!) with git fetch --recurse-submodules -j2.
See "How to speed up / parallelize downloads of git submodules using git clone --recursive?"

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Original answer mid-2013

You could try:

• to initialize first all submodules:

  git submodule init

Then, the foreach syntax:

git submodule foreach git submodule update --recursive -- $path &

If the '&' applies to the all line (instead of just the 'git submodule update --recursive -- $path' part), then you could call a script which would make the update in the background.

git submodule foreach git_submodule_update