How to clone git repo that have other repo in it?

Question

I'm trying to clone https://github.com/ornicar/lila to my PC. That project have a link to other project in https://github.com/ornicar/lila/tree/master/modules/chess and when I simply do git clone git@github.com:ornicar/lila.git it doesn't clone chess content. How to fix that?

Answer 1

What you want is git submodule update --init after you clone the main repo. It will fetch the other repo and place it in the proper location.