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

Question

When simply downloading and using 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 it cannot ch...

仅有的幸福 · Answer

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

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

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

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

cd to the clone repo of submodule (such as .git/modules/tidy-html5), fetch那个commit git fetch abb031
git submodule update --no-fetch