[Pxtl]

They feel like an unfinished tool provided by a third-party, not a built-in component of git.

The simple fact that switching branches doesn't auto update the submodule is awful.

[kasbah]

You can change that behavior now in newer versions of git:

    git config --global submodule.recurse true

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1899792/why-is-git-submo...