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copied!<p>Starting with Git 1.7.5 it should update submodules automatically by default like you want it to.</p> <p>[EDIT: per comments: the new 1.7.5 behaviour is to automatically <em>fetch</em> the latest commits for submodules, but <strong>not</strong> to <em>update</em> them (in the <code>git submodule update</code> sense). So the information in this answer is relevant as background, but is not a complete answer by itself. You still need an alias to pull and update submodules in one command.]</p> <p>The default behavior, "on-demand", is to update submodules whenever you fetch a commit that updates the submodule commit, and this commit isn't already located in your local clone.<br> You can also have it updated on every fetch or never (pre-1.7.5 behavior I assume).<br> The config option to change this behavior is <strong><code>fetch.recurseSubmodules</code></strong>.</p> <blockquote> <p>This option can be either set to a boolean value or to <code>on-demand</code>.<br> Setting it to a boolean changes the behavior of <code>fetch</code> and <code>pull</code> to unconditionally recurse into submodules when set to true or to not recurse at all when set to false. </p> <p>When set to <code>on-demand</code> (the default value), <code>fetch</code> and <code>pull</code> <strong>will only recurse into a populated submodule when its superproject retrieves a commit that updates the submodule’s reference</strong>. </p> </blockquote> <p>See:</p> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/v1.7.5/git-config.html" rel="noreferrer"><code>git config</code> man page (1.7.5)</a> (or latest <a href="http://git-scm.com/docs/git-config" rel="noreferrer"><code>git config</code> man page</a>)</li> <li><a href="http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/v1.7.5/git-fetch.html" rel="noreferrer"><code>git fetch</code> man page (1.7.5)</a> (or latest <a href="http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-fetch.html" rel="noreferrer">git fetch man page</a>)</li> </ul> <p>for more information.</p> <pre><code>git fetch --recurse-submodules[=yes|on-demand|no] </code></pre>

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