How to git clone including submodules

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I m trying to put a submodule into a repo  The problem is that when I clone the parent repo  the submodule folder is entirely empty   Is there any way to make it so that git clone parent repo actually puts data in the submodule folder   For example  http   github com cwolves sequelize tree master lib   nodejs-mysql-native is pointing at an external git submodule  but when I checkout the sequelize project  that folder is empty

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I think you can go with 3 steps   git clone git submodule init git submodule update

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You have to do two things before a submodule will be filled   git submodule init  git submodule update

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Try this   git clone --recurse-submodules   It automatically pulls in the submodule data assuming you have already added the submodules to the parent project

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Try this   git clone -b  lt branch name gt  --recursive  lt remote gt   lt directory gt    If you have added the submodule in a branch make sure that you add it to the clone command

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Git 2 23  Q3 2019   if you want to clone and update the submodules to their latest revision  git clone --recurse-submodules --remote-submodules  If you just want to clone them at their recorded SHA1  git clone --recurse-submodules  See below  Note that Git 2 29  Q4 2020  brings a significant optimization around submodule handling  See commit a462bee  06 Sep 2020  by Orgad Shaneh  orgads    Merged by Junio C Hamano -- gitster -- in commit 2ce9d4e  18 Sep 2020   submodule  suppress checking for file name and ref ambiguity for object ids Signed-off-by  Orgad Shaneh   The argv argument of collect changed submodules   contains only object ids  the objects references of all the refs   Notify setup revisions   that the input is not filenames by passing assume dashdash  so it can avoid redundant stat for each ref  Also suppress refname ambiguity flag to avoid filesystem lookups for each object  Similar logic can be found in cat-file  pack-objects and more  This change reduces the time for git fetch man  in my repo from 25s to 6s    Original answer 2010 As joschi mentions in the comments  git submodule now supports the --recursive option  Git1 6 5 and more    If --recursive is specified  this command will recurse into the registered submodules  and update any nested submodules within   See Working with git submodules recursively for the init part  See git submodule explained for more   With version 1 6 5 of git and later  you can do this automatically by cloning the super-project with the    -recursive option   git clone --recursive git   github com mysociety whatdotheyknow git   Update 2016  with git 2 8  see  quot How to speed up   parallelize downloads of git submodules using git clone --recursive  quot  You can initiate fetching the submodule using multiple threads  in parallel  For instances  git fetch --recurse-submodules -j2   Even better  with Git 2 23  Q3 2019   you can clone and checkout the submodule to their tracking branch in one command  See commit 4c69101  19 May 2019  by Ben Avison  bavison    Merged by Junio C Hamano -- gitster -- in commit 9476094  17 Jun 2019   clone  add --remote-submodules flag   When using git clone --recurse-submodules there was previously no way to pass a --remote switch to the implicit git submodule update command for any use case where you want the submodules to be checked out on their remote-tracking branch rather than with the SHA-1 recorded in the superproject    This patch rectifies this situation  It actually passes --no-fetch to git submodule update as well on the grounds they the submodule has only just been cloned  so fetching from the remote again only serves to slow things down   That means  -- no- remote-submodules    All submodules which are cloned will use the status of the submodule   s remote-tracking branch to update the submodule  rather than the superproject   s recorded SHA-1  Equivalent to passing --remote to git submodule update

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I had the same problem for a GitHub repository  My account was missing SSH Key  The process is   Generate SSH Key Adding a new SSH key to your GitHub account   Then  you can clone the repository with submodules  git clone --recursive YOUR-GIT-REPO-URL    or   Run git submodule init and git submodule update to fetch submodules in already cloned repository

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late answer     git CLONE INCLUDE-SUBMODULES ADDRESS DESTINATION-DIRECTORY git clone --recursive https   USERNAME bitbucket org USERNAME REPO git DESTINATION DIR   As I just spent a whole hour fiddling around with a friend  Even if you have Admin rights on BitBucket  always clone the ORIGINAL repository and use the password of the one who owns the repo  Annoying to find out that you ran into this minetrap  P

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You can use the --recursive flag when cloning a repository  This parameter forces git to clone all defined submodules in the repository   git clone --recursive git repo org your repo git   After cloning  sometimes submodules branches may be changed  so run this command after it   git submodule foreach  git checkout master

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If it is a new project simply you can do like this      git clone --recurse-submodules https   github com chaconinc YourProjectName    If it is already installed than      cd YourProjectName  for the cases you are not at right directory     git submodule init   git submodule update

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Quick Answer  After cloning the parent repo  including some submodule repo   do the following  git submodule update --init --recursive

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With version 2 13 of Git and later  --recurse-submodules can be used instead of --recursive   git clone --recurse-submodules -j8 git   github com foo bar git cd bar   Editor   s note  -j8 is an optional performance optimization that became available in version 2 8  and fetches up to 8 submodules at a time in parallel     see man git-clone   With version 1 9 of Git up until version 2 12  -j flag only available in version 2 8     git clone --recursive -j8 git   github com foo bar git cd bar   With version 1 6 5 of Git and later  you can use   git clone --recursive git   github com foo bar git cd bar   For already cloned repos  or older Git versions  use   git clone git   github com foo bar git cd bar git submodule update --init --recursive

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If your submodule was added in a branch be sure to include it in your clone command     git clone -b  lt branch name gt  --recursive  lt remote gt   lt directory gt

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Quick Answer  You can use this command to clone your repo with all the submodules  git clone --recursive YOUR-GIT-REPO-URL  Or if you have already cloned the project  you can use  git submodule init git submodule update

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Submodules parallel fetch aims at reducing the time required to fetch a repositories and all of its related submodules by enabling the fetching of multiple repositories at once  This can be accomplished by using the new --jobs option  e g    git fetch --recurse-submodules --jobs 4   According to Git team  this can substantially speed up updating repositories that contain many submodules  When using --recurse-submodules without the new --jobs option  Git will fetch submodules one by one   Source  http   www infoq com news 2016 03 git28-released

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Try this for including submodules in git repository   git clone -b  lt branch name gt  --recursive  lt remote gt   lt directory gt    or  git clone --recurse-submodules

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