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 Evergreen uses [Git submodules](https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Tools-Submodules) to include shared frameworks. At this writing (June 2018) they are DB5, RSCore, RSDatabase, RSWeb, RSTree, and RSParser.
 
+After your first checkout:
+
+	git submodule init
+  git submodule update
+
+
 To add a submodule:
 
 	git submodule add https://github.com/username/path