Initially reported for GFW on version 2.20.1, I have tested with Linux Mint
Mate 19.1 Tessa which by default uses git version 2.17.1
It produces a config file with the relevant submodule entries looking like this:
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[submodule]
active = .
[submodule "Submodule/Path"]
url = https://github.com/organization/submodule.git
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Instead of that, which is produced by manually initializing a submodule anytime
after cloning:
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[submodule "Submodule/Path"]
active = true
url = https://github.com/organization/submodule.git
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