= Automatically initialize and update git submodules when present in a project If a cloned-and-checked-out project has a `.gitmodules` file in the root of the repo, run `git submodule update --init --recursive` inside the project to clone all submodules. Failures in setting up submodules result only in a warning log and do not prevent the project from being 'set up', as the user can later initialize submodules manually.