With version 2.13 of Git and later, --recurse-submodules can be used instead of --recursive:

git clone --recurse-submodules -j8 git://github.com/foo/bar.git
cd bar

^{Editor’s note: -j8 is an optional performance optimization that became available in version 2.8, and fetches up to 8 submodules at a time in parallel — see man git-clone.}

With version 1.9 of Git up until version 2.12 (-j flag only available in version 2.8+):

git clone --recursive -j8 git://github.com/foo/bar.git
cd bar

With version 1.6.5 of Git and later, you can use:

git clone --recursive git://github.com/foo/bar.git
cd bar

For already cloned repos, or older Git versions, use:

git clone git://github.com/foo/bar.git
cd bar
git submodule update --init --recursive

[Quick Answer]

You can use this command to clone your repo with all the submodules:

git clone --recursive YOUR-GIT-REPO-URL

Or if you have already cloned the project, you can use:

git submodule init
git submodule update

[Quick Answer]

After cloning the parent repo (including some submodule repos), do the following:

git submodule update --init --recursive

Use this command to clone repo with all submodules

git clone --recurse-submodules git@gitlab.staging-host.com:yourproject

To update code for all submodules

git submodule update --recursive --remote

If your submodule was added in a branch be sure to include it in your clone command...

git clone -b <branch_name> --recursive <remote> <directory>

I think you can go with 3 steps:

git clone
git submodule init
git submodule update

You can use the --recursive flag when cloning a repository. This parameter forces git to clone all defined submodules in the repository.

git clone --recursive git@repo.org:your_repo.git

After cloning, sometimes submodules branches may be changed, so run this command after it:

git submodule foreach "git checkout master"

Try this for including submodules in git repository.

git clone -b <branch_name> --recursive <remote> <directory>

or

git clone --recurse-submodules

Just do these in your project directory.

$ git submodule init
$ git submodule update

If it is a new project simply you can do like this :

$ git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/chaconinc/YourProjectName 

If it is already installed than :

$ cd YourProjectName (for the cases you are not at right directory) 
$ git submodule init
$ git submodule update

I had the same problem for a GitHub repository. My account was missing SSH Key. The process is

1. Generate SSH Key
2. Adding a new SSH key to your GitHub account

Then, you can clone the repository with submodules (git clone --recursive YOUR-GIT-REPO-URL)

or

Run git submodule init and git submodule update to fetch submodules in already cloned repository.

Try this.

git clone -b <branch_name> --recursive <remote> <directory>

If you have added the submodule in a branch make sure that you add it to the clone command.

1.git submodule init 2.git submodule update

or maybe git stash -u git pull origin master git stash p

git submodule foreach git pull origin master