Fetch submodules automatically
Currently with release 7.6.1 if repository uses submodules, there is an inevitability to open each submodule before updating main repository ( fast forward, checkout ).
It sometimes is tiring, especially when repository uses few submodules, and their submodules uses also submodules. Without opening submodule, updating it does nothing.
Comments: 7
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28 Jul, '21
keyes!!! I've being troubling with this for weeks!!! please let there be a swith botton to manage it!
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16 Feb, '22
AxelPlease add this feature together with an option to enable or disable this feature (see also https://feedback.gitkraken.com/suggestions/193513). Having an option to fetch submdules on demand to get all update would also be helpful. And the whole thing should work recursively in case there are sub-submodules.
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24 Sep, '22
Ivanplease do something, I love gitkraken but this is very time consuming when dealing with many nested submodules & it makes rebases a nightmare....
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04 Jan
FabrizioIf I have understood correctly we are talking about sub-submodules.
I fully agree that GitKraken seems forgetting that a sub-module can have on its own also submodules.
I could agree that is not really common, nevertheless submodules nesting happens... and it's normal!
When switching branch or perform any operation that involves sub-sub-modules we need to open a prompt to issue a "git submodule ..." to fix what is left partially done by GitKraken. Really error-prone and not justified.
I really encourage the GitKraken team to consider that submodules can be nested and take this fact into consideration on any operation to be performed consistently.
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14 Feb
Axel HeiderMy workaround for this is running `git submodule update --init --recursive --jobs 16` in the command line. In you case `git fetch --recurse-submodules --jobs 16` should also work.
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21 Feb
Yoshua NavaThis feature goes in the same direction as https://feedback.gitkraken.com/suggestions/354160/pull-all-submodules-in-a-workspace#comment482078, and I think it would improve the experience when working with submodules significantly.
:pray: Please :pray: -
17 Mar
MKLI second that, because that it the reason I keep Git Extensions installed, just for pulling and initializing correctly all submodules. It is especially annoying when doing a rebase, when the branch is using a tag on a submodule that was not locally fetch. You end up with a ton of errors, and to avoid it, you need to open each submodule and fetch.