In our case we do not use submodules, because we need to apply some patch or PR to the dependency. To solve it we use git-aggregator (I am not the autor) (lang

In our case we do not use submodules, because we need to apply some patch or PR to the dependency. To solve it we use git-aggregator (I am not the autor) (language agnostic too). It seem to have the same features as VDM + some extra one (possiblity to have a frozen file, possibly to apply patch/pr...) Source : https://github.com/acsone/git-aggregator https://github.com/acsone/git-aggregator