Some aspects of git submodules are bad, especially for beginners. When I used them the first time had the strange experience that checking out or pulling left t

Some aspects of git submodules are bad, especially for beginners. When I used them the first time had the strange experience that checking out or pulling left the submodule out of sync and I had to go to the directory and check out the right reference. Now I've learned to throw --recurse-submodules after "git checkout", "git pull", and "git clone" and you can mostly forget submodules then unless you start to interact with it explicitly.