Submodule's files are not checked out

Question

I'm trying to add an external repo as a submodule of my repo, so I followed these instructions, doing:

git submodule add git:... vendor
git submodule init
git submodule update

then I tired:

git submodule init vendor
git submodule update vendor

The submodule that I'm adding has submodules, and the submodule's submodules appear to to be checkedout (ie: I see the files on my hard drive) but the files for the submodule itself are not checkout out.

Any idea what I'm doing wrong?

This is the repo that I'm trying to add as a submodule, and it's src directory is all that I see in my checkout/clone, along with the sub directories and files or src, but I don't have the readme file for example.

Answer 1

Since git version 1.6.5 you can use the --recursive and --init options to git submodule update to make sure that submodules are recursively initialized and updated. So, for your example, the following works for me:

$ git submodule add git://github.com/jbalogh/zamboni-lib.git vendor
remote: Counting objects: 7001, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (5985/5985), done.
remote: Total 7001 (delta 1137), reused 6337 (delta 736)
Receiving objects: 100% (7001/7001), 14.88 MiB | 1.99 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (1137/1137), done.
$ git submodule update --init --recursive
[... lots of output ...]

I hope that's of some use.