diff --git a/.github/workflows/bun.yml b/.github/workflows/bun.yml
index b7002e0ef8..cd645a3322 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/bun.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/bun.yml
@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ jobs:
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v3
       - name: Checkout submodules
-        run: git -c submodule."src/bun.js/WebKit".update=none submodule update --init --recursive --depth=1 --progress -j $(sysctl -n hw.ncpu)
+        run: git submodule update --init --recursive --depth=1 --progress -j $(sysctl -n hw.ncpu)
       - name: Install dependencies
         env:
           CPU_TARGET: ${{ matrix.cpu }}
diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index 138c5d05f5..ada63fb9d6 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -3,48 +3,69 @@ path = src/deps/picohttpparser
 url = https://github.com/h2o/picohttpparser.git
 ignore = dirty
 depth = 1
+shallow = true
+fetchRecurseSubmodules = false
 [submodule "src/javascript/jsc/WebKit"]
-	path = src/bun.js/WebKit
+path = src/bun.js/WebKit
 url = https://github.com/Jarred-Sumner/WebKit.git
 ignore = dirty
 depth = 1
+update = none
+shallow = true
+fetchRecurseSubmodules = false
 [submodule "src/deps/mimalloc"]
 path = src/deps/mimalloc
 url = https://github.com/Jarred-Sumner/mimalloc.git
 ignore = dirty
 depth = 1
+shallow = true
+fetchRecurseSubmodules = false
 [submodule "src/deps/zlib"]
 path = src/deps/zlib
 url = https://github.com/cloudflare/zlib.git
 ignore = dirty
 depth = 1
+shallow = true
+fetchRecurseSubmodules = false
 [submodule "src/deps/libarchive"]
 path = src/deps/libarchive
 url = https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive.git
 ignore = dirty
 depth = 1
+shallow = true
+fetchRecurseSubmodules = false
 [submodule "src/deps/boringssl"]
 path = src/deps/boringssl
 url = https://github.com/google/boringssl.git
 ignore = dirty
 depth = 1
+shallow = true
+fetchRecurseSubmodules = false
 [submodule "src/deps/libbacktrace"]
 path = src/deps/libbacktrace
 url = https://github.com/ianlancetaylor/libbacktrace
 ignore = dirty
 depth = 1
+shallow = true
+fetchRecurseSubmodules = false
 [submodule "src/deps/lol-html"]
 path = src/deps/lol-html
 url = https://github.com/cloudflare/lol-html
 ignore = dirty
 depth = 1
+shallow = true
+fetchRecurseSubmodules = false
 [submodule "src/deps/uws"]
 path = src/deps/uws
 url = https://github.com/Jarred-Sumner/uWebSockets
 ignore = dirty
 depth = 1
+shallow = true
+fetchRecurseSubmodules = true
 [submodule "src/deps/tinycc"]
 path = src/deps/tinycc
 url = https://github.com/Jarred-Sumner/tinycc.git
 ignore = dirty
 depth = 1
+shallow = true
+fetchRecurseSubmodules = false