Git recursive clone on a branch does not work

Question

I'm trying to clone a specific branch of a repository with several git submodules, and having no luck with actually cloning them. I'm trying:

git clone --recurse-submodules --branch myBranch -j8 https://github.com/me/myrepo

But, all the submodule folders are empty, even after cloning start.

Also trying git submodule update, git submodule sync...but nothing works, and I'm out of ideas.

Can you point us at a specific repository so that we can try to reproduce the exact problem? Are you running `git submodule init` before `git submodule update` (or alternately, `git submodule update --init`)? — larsks, Oct 15 '18 at 01:32

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 15 '18 at 04:41

Make sure those submodules are there in mybranch:

If there is no submodule entry, that would explain why they are empty.
If they are, as commented, a git submodule update --init should be enough.

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