.NET Web API, Submodules project not loading on cloning

Question

I have .NET 5 WEB API project that is consuming services from the submodules. These submodules have its own repository.

I am using GitBlash and BitBucket as repository.

I have added submodule reference by:

 git submodule add http://bitbucket.org/myprojectA

then I went in Visual Studio, opened the project and created folder 'Submodule', followed by I add project references of submodule within the project folder. I commit and push changes.

Then I cloned the same project from BitBucket using SourceTree to test, I opened API project in visual studio and I got the warning message

 one or more projects in the solution were not loaded correctly

Not sure what I am missing. Do I need to run some git bash command to update reference??

Answer 1

There are two possible solutions:

1. Explicit get submodules

git submodule update --init --recursive

2. Clone with submodules

git clone --recursive <repo URL>