To be able to skip updaing Git submodules

[sushpatg]

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Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe:

Currently amplify is updating Git submodules when .gitmodules is present in the project. Currently we are not having any configuration or workaround to skip this step

Looking for an environment variable/configuration which would help to skip the step of updating submodules.

Describe how you'd like this feature to work

Looking for an environment variable/configuration which would help to skip the step of updating submodules.

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