How to track the progress when cloning git submodules
Programming Estimated reading time: ~1 minutes
Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency. In this article you will learn how to debug the git submodules command.
To clone a submodule you use the git submodule update command.
As a submodule might be big (e.g. multiple gigabytes) this might take
some time. By default the git submodule update
command does not show any progress indicator like the git clone command does.
You have to provide a dedicated option:
$ git submodule update --progress
If you are still facing problems you can debug the process of updating submodules by using the following command:
$ GIT_TRACE=1 GIT_CURL_VERBOSE=1 git submodule update
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