How to clone a git repository with submodule with the minimum code? Compare git clone --depth=1

Question

When simply downloading and using the software from github, you can use the depth parameter to download the first code. However, for projects with submodules, execute git submodule update --init --recursive --depth=1 because the submodule is a shallow clone. , so the target commit cannot be checked out.

Is there any solution to this situation?

Answer 1

I only found a method that fetch/clone once, which is quite troublesome:

1. git submodule update --init --depth=1 At this time, the commit obtained by clone is usually not the one registered by the submodule, so an error will be reported

2. git ls-tree HEAD:(submodule的路径) Find the commit you want, such as

   `160000 commit abb03163aeafb8b7fc1efd2413d9f077bcdbeed9  tidy-html5` 的 `abb031`就是

3. cd to the clone repo of submodule (such as .git/modules/tidy-html5), fetch那个commit git fetch abb031

4. git submodule update --no-fetch