Hi,

No, there is I believe no way. If the project has sub modules that need to be 
initialised, I think the only real way out is to use a direct git fetch. i.e. 
follow

https://guide.macports.org/#reference.portgroup.github.submodule 
<https://guide.macports.org/#reference.portgroup.github.submodule>

Chris

> On 22 May 2020, at 8:16 pm, Zhenfu Shi via macports-dev 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hey guys,
> I’m trying updating transmission(-x11) to just-released version 3.0, but it 
> uses a lot of 3rd party submodules. I found the macports guide reads "the 
> best distfile candidate (if available) is a distfile from GitHub releases”, 
> so I’d like to know what’s the best way to put submodules into the extracted 
> tarball, without using `fetch.type git` and `git submodule update —init`. 
> Would be great if there’s a port already doing this so I could learn from it.
> 
> Thanks in advance!

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