Clone dotfiles recursively about gitpod

[Julian]

Hey! Thanks @axonasif for the follow-up!

I thought of that, and will definitely go with it if need be -- I figured I'd file this anyhow since I couldn't think of a disadvantage to doing this always (i.e. adding --recursive here I think, especially since I think you're already defaulting to shallow clones of submodules even though you're not cloning them, if I follow the code there right)

But of course if there is one somehow I'm not at all upset if you close this! And thanks again for the info.

[axonasif]

Hi @Julian, you have full control after your initial dotfiles repo is cloned.

I suggest that you add an additional file called install.sh in your main dotfiles repo. In it, you can customize the installation. (or update your existing bootstrap.sh)

Example install.sh for your use case:

#!/usr/bin/env bash

git submodule update --init --recursive
./dot install

Make sure to run chmod 755 install.sh before committing.

https://www.gitpod.io/docs/configure/user-settings/dotfiles contains some information that you might find useful.