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. However it does not pulled submodules.

If I go into submodule directories and call git pull, nothing happens.

What is the proper way to pull those submodules in the new project ?

4 Answers

From the root of the repo just run:

git submodule update --init 
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 
5

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

git submodule update --init --recursive 

I just want to share these.

First way,

git submodule init && git submodule update 

The below is just basically combining the first way,

git submodule update --init 

If there are any nested submodules, Iglesk's answer is the way to go.

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