Update Git submodule to latest commit on origin

Question

I have a project with a Git submodule. It is from an ssh://... URL, and is on commit A. Commit B has been pushed to that URL, and I want the submodule to retrieve the commit

Answer 1

In my case, I wanted git to update to the latest and at the same time re-populate any missing files.

The following restored the missing files (thanks to --force which doesn't seem to have been mentioned here), but it didn't pull any new commits:

git submodule update --init --recursive --force

This did:

git submodule update --recursive --remote --merge --force