From: Matthias Nothhaft Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 10:28:30 GMT Subject: Re: submodules inside submodules? Message-ID: <978bdee00903180328n7610ab5csa5cd6c8d0f4fc65b@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200903181046.54556.johan@herland.net> 2009/3/18 Johan Herland : > On Tuesday 17 March 2009, Johannes Schindelin wrote: >> On Tue, 17 Mar 2009, Matthias Nothhaft wrote: >> > can I put submodules into submodules? >> >> Yes. > > However, initializing them is a bit clunky, as Git will only init/update one > "level" of submodules at a time. In other words, a single "git submodule > update --init" will only intialize the first level of submodules. You will > have to redo that command within submodules that have their own (i.e. > nested) submodules. Oh, thanks for that hint. regards, Matthias