# Autoupdate / autoinit submodules?

1 messages from 2016-10-03 to 2016-10-03. Participants: Jeremy Morton.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/44202

## Jeremy Morton, 2016-10-03 09:50

Subject: Autoupdate / autoinit submodules?
Message-ID: <57F229D5.6060005@game-point.net>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/57F229D5.6060005%40game-point.net

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Apologies if this has already been discussed, but did any of the 
proposed patches to allow .gitmodules to be configured for a submodule 
to be automatically recursive cloned and/or automatically updated on 
pull make it in yet?

My use-case for submodules - which is shared libraries - almost always 
requires a recursive clone, so having to remember the --recursive 
param (or to use an alias) is annoying (and I usually forget), and it 
usually requires pulling the latest master on a "git pull", too.  I 
think both of these things should be able to be automated through git 
module configuration.

-- 
Best regards,
Jeremy Morton (Jez)

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