[junon]

Another tip: you can do a deep clone of the main repo, then do `git submodule update --init --recursive --depth=1` to just pull the heads of your dependencies to cut down on times. Especially useful if you don't work within the submodules at all.

[nerdponx]

IMO this should be the default!

[junon]

No. History is the whole point of git. It would be antithetical to make this the default.

I'm more on board with the recursive options, though.