diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index fa4c5ea9e..dc0ae4b38 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 [submodule "custom_ops/third_party/DeepGEMM"]
 	path = custom_ops/third_party/DeepGEMM
 	url = https://github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepGEMM.git
+	ignore = all
 [submodule "custom_ops/third_party/cutlass"]
 	path = custom_ops/third_party/cutlass
 	url = https://github.com/NVIDIA/cutlass.git