If you have a submodule inside your git repo, it’s often handy to just pull all the changes from remote, including your actual git repo, but also all your submodules. If you are on git 1.7.3 or later, you can just add a ~/.gitconfig alias like the following:
[alias] pullall = !git pull --recurse-submodules && git submodule update --recursive
The 2nd command (git submodule update) is needed to actually check out the new commits (the ones your master repository points to) in the submodules.
Example:
$ git pullall remote: Counting objects: 24, done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (12/12), done. remote: Total 13 (delta 7), reused 0 (delta 0) Unpacking objects: 100% (13/13), done. From gitcube:/home/git/pchess 9f19a46..915ba55 master -> origin/master Fetching submodule server/libs/erlyweb remote: Counting objects: 5, done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (5/5), done. remote: Total 5 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 0 Unpacking objects: 100% (5/5), done. From github.com:ettore/erlyweb a319f79..6e0ac0c master -> origin/master Updating 9f19a46..915ba55 Fast-forward server/bin/pchess_rollout.sh | 13 +++++++++---- server/libs/erlyweb | 2 +- server/pchesslauncher.erl | 5 ++--- /snip/ 8 files changed, 47 insertions(+), 192 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 server/pchess/rsrc/apn_dev.pem delete mode 100644 server/pchess/rsrc/rsrc.contents.txt delete mode 100644 server/pchess/rsrc/yaws_out.log