Debloat-Windows-10 tools not available when cloning packer-windows

[jeffreytigch]

The first step of the guide tells us to clone your packer-windows repo, but Packer will throw an error when trying to build:

packer build --only=vmware-iso windows_2025_docker.json
Error: Failed to prepare build: "vmware-iso"

3 error(s) occurred:

* Bad Floppy disk file
'./submodules/Debloat-Windows-10/scripts/disable-windows-defender.ps1': stat
./submodules/Debloat-Windows-10/scripts/disable-windows-defender.ps1: no such
file or directory
* Bad Floppy disk file
'./submodules/Debloat-Windows-10/scripts/optimize-windows-update.ps1': stat
./submodules/Debloat-Windows-10/scripts/optimize-windows-update.ps1: no such
file or directory
* Bad Floppy disk file './submodules/Debloat-Windows-10/lib/force-mkdir.psm1':
stat ./submodules/Debloat-Windows-10/lib/force-mkdir.psm1: no such file or
directory

This is becauseDebloat-Windows-10 is a submodule of a different repo.

This can be fixed by changing the first step to use --recurse-submodules when cloning. The submodule will then be cloned as well, and the issue will be resolved.