From 38246408c0dee8fcddc3cebbdf3067f6cca9d0e8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "CanbiZ (MickLesk)" <47820557+MickLesk@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2026 13:17:37 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] add hint

---
 install/openthread-br-install.sh | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/install/openthread-br-install.sh b/install/openthread-br-install.sh
index d1696e30..5b3d34a9 100644
--- a/install/openthread-br-install.sh
+++ b/install/openthread-br-install.sh
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ $STD apt install -y \
 msg_ok "Installed Dependencies"
 
 msg_info "Cloning OpenThread Border Router"
+# git clone is needed to fetch submodules, fetch_and_deploy_gh_release doesn't support this. We use --depth 1 to minimize the amount of data cloned, but it still may take a while.
 $STD git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/openthread/ot-br-posix /opt/ot-br-posix
 cd /opt/ot-br-posix
 $STD git submodule update --depth 1 --init --recursive