Using git submodules for plugins and themes not on the wordpress.org repo is a great workflow for us and solves the issue of things not being on the .org repo quite nicely.
However there aren't any docs for this just now really, barring something in the TODO.md.
Also the deployer recipe can probably be adjusted a bit as the submodules are not in the .gitignore so are not symlinked as shared:

Using git submodules for plugins and themes not on the wordpress.org repo is a great workflow for us and solves the issue of things not being on the .org repo quite nicely.
However there aren't any docs for this just now really, barring something in the TODO.md.
Also the deployer recipe can probably be adjusted a bit as the submodules are not in the .gitignore so are not symlinked as shared:
