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To clone the Ceph source code repository, execute::
- git clone https://github.com/ceph/ceph.git
+ git clone --recursive https://github.com/ceph/ceph.git
Once ``git clone`` executes, you should have a full copy of the Ceph
repository.
-Clone the Submodules
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-Before you can build Ceph, you must navigate to your new repository and get
-the ``init`` submodule and the ``update`` submodule::
-
- cd ceph
- git submodule init
- git submodule update
-
-.. tip:: Make sure you maintain the latest copies of these submodules.
- Running ``git status`` will tell you if the submodules are out of date::
+.. tip:: Make sure you maintain the latest copies of the submodules
+ included in the repository. Running ``git status`` will tell you if
+ the submodules are out of date::
git status