Q:

Pull git submodules after cloning project from GitHub

I have a project that has specified submodules in it. Everything works well on the dev machine. I have commited .gitmodules file and pulled on the production. However it does not pulled submodules.
If I go into submodule directories and call git pull, nothing happens.
What is the proper way to pull those submodules in the new project ?

A:

From the root of the repo just run:
git submodule update --init

A:

If you need to pull stuff for submodules into your submodule repositories use
git pull --recurse-submodules

But this will not checkout proper commits(the ones your master repository points to) in submodules
To checkout proper commits in your submodules you should update them after pulling using
git submodule update --recursive

A:

If there are nested submodules, you will need to use:
git submodule update --init --recursive

