Empty Git submodule folder when repo cloned

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jcubic picture jcubic · Jul 6, 2012 · Viewed 42.6k times · Source

I have one repo hosted at https://github.com/aikiframework/json . On my local copy, I added a submodule using the command

git submodule add [email protected]:jcubic/json-rpc.git json-rpc

Then I did a commit and push, and the changes appear on GitHub (I can click on it). But when I clone the repo

git clone https://github.com/aikiframework/json.git

the submodule folder json-rpc is empty.

What am I missing here? Did I forget about something? Why is that folder empty?

Answer

jcubic picture jcubic · Jul 6, 2012

OK I found it, needed to add --recursive when cloning the repo.

So the clone command ends up as:

git clone https://github.com/aikiframework/json.git --recursive

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