Merge pull request #3444 from rickyvetter/sub

add submodule explaination to CONTRIBUTING.md
rescript-lang · Mar 26, 2019 · f07fbb6 · f07fbb6
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@@ -17,6 +17,12 @@ Prerequisites:
 node scripts/buildocaml.js
 ```
 
+The codebase recently moved from keeping its version of OCaml in a subtree to using git submodules. If you run into error on this step, executing the following can help:
+
+```
+git submodule update --init
+```
+
 ### Build everything in dev mode using vendored compiler
 
 ```