diff --git a/bin/toychain b/bin/toychain
index c83eb28..102b5ad 100755
--- a/bin/toychain
+++ b/bin/toychain
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ tcupdate() {
  echo "$pgm: updating daemon with tag $tag..."
  top=$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel)
  echo // updating $top
- git pull --ff-only origin master 2>&1 | tee transcript.log
+ git pull --ff-only --recurse-submodules=yes origin master 2>&1 | tee transcript.log
  echo // checking out $tag
  git checkout $tag 2>&1 | tee -a transcript.log
  git log -1
@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ tcdebug() {
 tcversion() {
  top=$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel)
  gitid0=$(git rev-parse --short HEAD)
- git pull --ff-only origin master 1>> transcript.log 2>&1
+ git pull --ff-only --recurse-submodules=yes origin master 1>> transcript.log 2>&1
  git checkout $tag 1>> transcript.log 2>&1
  gitid1=$(git rev-parse --short HEAD)
  if [ "x$gitid0" != "x$gitid1" ]; then gitid1=$gitdi0-$gitid1;  fi