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.
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