Pull git submodules after cloning project from GitHub

Question

I have a project that has specified submodules in it. Everything works well on the dev machine. I have commited .gitmodules file and pulled on the production. Howev

Answer 1

If there are nested submodules, you will need to use:

git submodule update --init --recursive

Answer 2

If you need to pull stuff for submodules into your submodule repositories use

git pull --recurse-submodules

But this will not checkout proper commits(the ones your master repository points to) in submodules

To checkout proper commits in your submodules you should update them after pulling using

git submodule update --recursive

Answer 3

From the root of the repo just run:

git submodule update --init