Cloning a Git repository which contains Sub modules

If you are a new collaborator joining the project, you’d start by running git clone to download the contents of the repository. At this point if you peek inside the sub-module folder, you’d see nothing. Git expects us to explicitly ask it to download the sub-module’s contents. For that you can use below commands:

For Git Versions 1.6.5 and later :
git clone --recursive git://github.com/foo/bar.git

From Git Versions 1.9 and up to 2.12 :

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Kindly check https://community.geekgong.com/d/12-cloning-a-git-repository-with-sub-modules/ for the complete article.

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