> ===
> git pull
> git submodule init
> git submodule foreach git pull
> ===
>
> Which I need so that the many submodules don't stray from the
> branch they are on and become detached. And BB is just another
> submodule. So it would be a PITA to do something special for
> BB. Gods why is git so horrible at this :-\ More than two
> years of being forced to use git and the cons are a magnitude
> larger than the pros.

Along with setting pull.rebase to true,

you can also create an alias in
your global ~/.gitconfig file:

[alias]
    update = !git pull && git submodule update --init --recursive

Then use it on the command line like so:

~/project/ $ git update