Hello. I've read [this similar question on superuser](https://superuser.com/questions/852019/git-submodule-foreach-git-pull-origin-master-vs-git-pull-recursive-submodules) but I feel my question is more basic: >From the `git pull` manpage: git pull runs git fetch with the given parameters and calls git merge to merge the retrieved branch heads into the current branch. ... --[no-]recurse-submodules[=yes|on-demand|no] This option controls if new commits of all populated submodules should be fetched and updated, too. To keep a cloned repo without submodules up to date I have been using just `git pull`. From the above it seems that I just need to add `--recurse-submodules` to pull all submodules as well. But if so what is the use of `git submodule update --recursive` or `git submodule update --remote --rebase` or such, which is somewhat confusing to me I'm sorry to say. Do I need to execute any `git submodule` commands separately even if I do `git pull --recurse-submodules`? All I want is to stay in sync with the cloned repo. -- Shriramana Sharma ஶ்ரீரமணஶர்மா श्रीरमणशर्मा 𑀰𑁆𑀭𑀻𑀭𑀫𑀡𑀰𑀭𑁆𑀫𑀸
