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This is my experience too, I wouldn't recommend people use them unless they really understand the costs. The last time I used them was to help manage my dotfile

This is my experience too, I wouldn't recommend people use them unless they really understand the costs. The last time I used them was to help manage my dotfiles, so I could use them with Pathogen to pull in my selection of vim plugins. It was just a headache, to the point where I bit the bullet and went down the package manager (vim-plug) route instead.

Anthony-G 6y ago
This is also the only use-case I have for git sub-modules. However, I haven’t encountered any serious problems. I mostly leave my (few) Vim plugins alone for so long that I forget the git commands to update the plugins when I do decide to update them. Having to check my notes or the relevant section of the Git Book is the worst of the friction. I’m using Pathogen as it works fine for me. I believe Vim 8.0 introduced something similar but I still have to use older Vim releases on various CentOS 6 and 7 systems.