From 9adc030808894b5aa0a77b38f4505e0d1d9729b4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Vadim Zeitlin Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2022 02:30:25 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Add a note about updating submodules to Git README too For people unfamiliar with submodules, it may be useful to know how to update them and not only how to get them initially. Closes #22695. --- README-GIT.md | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/README-GIT.md b/README-GIT.md index f7d5d08aa6..948553965f 100644 --- a/README-GIT.md +++ b/README-GIT.md @@ -3,7 +3,9 @@ Building from Git Sources Please use `--recurse-submodules` option with the initial `git clone`. If you had already cloned the repository without this option, please run `git -submodule update --init` to also get all 3rd party libraries code. +submodule update --init` to also get all 3rd party libraries code. In the +future you will also need to use `git submodule update` whenever any of the +submodules change. Otherwise, building from Git checkout is not different from building from the sources include into the releases, so please follow the usual