Can git submodule update be made to fetch tags in submodules?

Question

I have a git repository which uses a submodule which I\'d like to point at an annotated tag, but when I do git submodule update new tags don\'t get fetched. I can g

Answer 1

you can script it so that you do a (cd path-to-submod && git fetch)

wrapping the commands in brackets puts the environment in a subshell, meaning, you don't have to CD back out to where you were.

Hope this helps