Failed to recurse into submodule

[dattachandan]

Is it possible to run a git recurse 👍

git clone --recursive https://github.com/chb/smart_sample_apps.git

Cloning into 'static/framework/steal'...
remote: Reusing existing pack: 11070, done.
remote: Total 11070 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0)
Receiving objects: 100% (11070/11070), 51.45 MiB | 641.00 KiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (6387/6387), done.
Checking connectivity... done.
Submodule path 'static/framework/steal': checked out '11c3f8824a79f31e97e59d1532
cba89716e2d7d3'
Failed to recurse into submodule path 'static/framework/funcunit'

[nschwertner]

This looks familiar. A couple months back the funcunit project moved their code to a new repository discarding their commit history (not a standard practice on GitHUB). Consequently we changed the submodule reference in our repository in this commit to fix the broken dependency:
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Any checkout prior to this commit will fail with the message you are getting.