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Asked: 2026-05-26T05:00:04+00:00

I have a project that’s consisted of two branches: STABLE and DEVELOPMENT. As the

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I have a project that’s consisted of two branches: STABLE and DEVELOPMENT. As the names suggested, DEVELOPMENT is the ever-ongoing developing branch and STABLE is the stable-but-not-so-new branch; hence the versions of submodules (and sub-submodules) in DEVELOPMENT are often ahead of STABLE.

Now, whenever I need to checkout from DEVELOPMENT to STABLE, git submodules update –recursive will not get into these “sub-submodules” at all and their directory will simply become empty, while all the submodules will be properly shunted back to an older version if needed. I have no idea how to get this right and would appreciate some helps.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Found the answer myself:

    git submodule update --init --recursive is a neat one-line command to do the job.

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