diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS
index c61e1098f..3b247d885 100644
--- a/AUTHORS
+++ b/AUTHORS
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ Felipe Coury <felipe.coury@gmail.com>
 Jeff Lindsay <progrium@gmail.com>
 Jose Diaz-Gonzalez <dokku@josediazgonzalez.com>
 Leo Unbekandt <leo@unbekandt.eu>
+Ludovic Perrine <jazzzz@gmail.com>
 Luigi Maselli <grigio.org@gmail.com>
 Martin Weiss <kornnflake@gmail.com>
 Paul Lietar <paul@lietar.net>
diff --git a/HISTORY.md b/HISTORY.md
index ecc00a5de..085f7977f 100644
--- a/HISTORY.md
+++ b/HISTORY.md
@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@
 
 ## 0.3.0 (in progress)
 
+* Added git submodules support
+
 ## 0.2.0 (2013-11-24)
 
 * Added DOKKU_TRACE variable for verbose trace information
diff --git a/plugins/git/commands b/plugins/git/commands
index b7b1cb2c2..31e606670 100755
--- a/plugins/git/commands
+++ b/plugins/git/commands
@@ -1,6 +1,21 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bash
 set -eo pipefail; [[ $DOKKU_TRACE ]] && set -x
 
+git_archive_all() {
+    APP=$1; REV=$2
+    TMP_WORK_DIR=$(mktemp -d)
+    chmod 755 $TMP_WORK_DIR
+    unset GIT_DIR GIT_WORK_TREE
+    git clone $DOKKU_ROOT/$APP $TMP_WORK_DIR > /dev/null
+    pushd $TMP_WORK_DIR > /dev/null
+    git checkout $REV > /dev/null
+    git submodule update --init --recursive > /dev/null
+    find -name .git -prune -exec rm -rf {} \; > /dev/null
+    tar c .
+    popd > /dev/null
+    rm -rf $TMP_WORK_DIR > /dev/null
+}
+
 case "$1" in
   git-hook)
     APP=$2
@@ -10,7 +25,7 @@ case "$1" in
       # Only run this script for the master branch. You can remove this
       # if block if you wish to run it for others as well.
       if [[ $refname = "refs/heads/master" ]] ; then
-        git archive $newrev | dokku receive $APP | sed -u "s/^/"$'\e[1G'"/"
+        git_archive_all $APP $newrev | dokku receive $APP | sed -u "s/^/"$'\e[1G'"/"
       else
         echo $'\e[1G\e[K'"-----> WARNING: deploy did not complete, you must push to master."
         echo $'\e[1G\e[K'"-----> for example, try 'git push <dokku> ${refname/refs\/heads\/}:master'"
diff --git a/tests/apps/gitsubmodules/Procfile b/tests/apps/gitsubmodules/Procfile
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..b0916e51c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/apps/gitsubmodules/Procfile
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+web: bin/node node-js-sample/web.js
diff --git a/tests/apps/gitsubmodules/check_deploy b/tests/apps/gitsubmodules/check_deploy
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..2fdc00cf6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/apps/gitsubmodules/check_deploy
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+set -e; output="$(curl -s $1)"; echo $output; test "$output" == "Hello World!"
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/tests/apps/gitsubmodules/package.json b/tests/apps/gitsubmodules/package.json
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..742e06105
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/apps/gitsubmodules/package.json
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+{
+  "name": "node-example",
+  "version": "0.0.1",
+  "dependencies": {
+    "express": "~3.3.4"
+  },
+  "engines": {
+    "node": "0.10.x",
+    "npm": "1.3.x"
+  }
+}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/tests/apps/gitsubmodules/pre-commit b/tests/apps/gitsubmodules/pre-commit
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..d0cd805b2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/apps/gitsubmodules/pre-commit
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+git submodule add https://github.com/heroku/node-js-sample.git node-js-sample