[witcher_rat]

They're better now than they were years ago, but yes they're still bad. And they're still second-class citizens for git commands.

Git has been adding more config settings to try to make it less painful, such as submodule.recurse, but that slows down most git-command significantly and the truth is most repos don't actually need to recurse - they just need the top level. So instead people end up writing aliases to try to handle it, which works ok, but it's brittle and people have to know to do it.

And if you have your repo on GitHub, they don't do some simple things that could have made it easier. For example, they could let the repo owner make the git-clone copy-to-clipboard thing have --recurse-submodules in the command you copy, so that cloning will do the right thing. But they don't. I understand why git itself doesn't want to make such things automatic, but GitHub could do it for at least private enterprise account repos.

BTW, I am _not_ advocating whatever this "Git X-Modules" thing is that the link points to. I have no idea what that is, never used it, and don't plan to.