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 ## How do I get set up?
-1. Clone or download this repository.
+1. Clone or download this repository. The best way is to issue
+     $ git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/abrandberg/indentationToElasticModulus.git
+     
 2. This repository uses the tensor manipulation library MMTensor, originally hosted at
 
      Maarten Moesen (2020). MMTensor 1.0 (https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/32891-mmtensor-1-0).
      
-   A copy of this repository is hosted on Github (https://github.com/abrandberg/MM_Tensor) and is included as a submodule in this repository. Submodules are not initiated by default when you clone a repository. To clone the submodule as well, you can call (while standing in the *indentationToElasticModulus* repository)
+   A copy of this repository is hosted on Github (https://github.com/abrandberg/MM_Tensor) and is included as a submodule in this repository. If you cloned the repository without recursively cloning the submodules (step 1) you can initiate the submodules manually by issuing (while standing in the *indentationToElasticModulus* repository)
    
    $ git submodule init
+   
    $ git submodule update
    
  This will clone the submodule.