hangs on git submodule update

Question

installing pupy on kali 2016.2 following by official readme.md

clone pupy from https://github.com/n1nj4sec/pupy.git

git clone https://github.com/n1nj4sec/pupy.git

change directory

cd pupy

and then:

git submodule init

when updating submodule

git submodule update

it hangs on

Cloning into '/root/pupy/pupy/external/LaZagne'...

i wait for 2 hours but nothing happend,try again but same results.

what cause to fail submodule update.

Answer 1

Maybe it didn't hang, but just slow. Try --progress option,

git submodule update --progress

I found this tip via another SO question, git submodule update --init --recursive hangs