I'm trying to figure out the best way to handle the situation where a project decides to use submodules in Git.  The archive generated doesn't incorporate the submodule files.  

I've reviewed:  Packaging:Github; but that really doesn't address the submodule issue.

I looked through some packages that are currently in the Fedora repository and found where a few folks have rebuilt the tarball and referenced that version as the Source in the spec file; then they put in a comment stating:

The source of this package was pulled from upstreams' vcs.  Use the following

commands to generate the tarball:

...

- git clone

... 

- git submodule init

- git submodule update 

...

This approach is the best that I've found.  Any other suggestions?

Thanks much!