Or a simple git or shell alias which would do the submodule update when you want it. That would solve most of the sources of complaints in the article and in th

Or a simple git or shell alias which would do the submodule update when you want it. That would solve most of the sources of complaints in the article and in this thread. However, most likely you don't want an automatic submodule update because of all the issues there are. It would only be useful for tracking a very stable slow moving external dependency.