You could use the same mechanism as git submodule init uses itself, namely, look at .gitmodules. This files enumerates each submodule path and the URL it refers to. For example, from root of repository, cat .gitmodules will print contents to the screen (assuming you have cat). Because .gitmodule files have the Git configuration format, you … Read more
The git submodule update command actually tells Git that you want your submodules to each check out the commit already specified in the index of the superproject. If you want to update your submodules to the latest commit available from their remote, you will need to do this directly in the submodules. So in summary: … Read more
With version 2.13 of Git and later, –recurse-submodules can be used instead of –recursive: git clone –recurse-submodules -j8 git://github.com/foo/bar.git cd bar Editor’s note: -j8 is an optional performance optimization that became available in version 2.8, and fetches up to 8 submodules at a time in parallel — see man git-clone. With version 1.9 of Git … Read more
If it’s the first time you check-out a repo you need to use –init first: git submodule update –init –recursive For git 1.8.2 or above, the option –remote was added to support updating to latest tips of remote branches: git submodule update –recursive –remote This has the added benefit of respecting any “non default” branches … Read more
git checkout –recurse-submodules was added to git 2.13 This is mentioned on the release notes at: https://github.com/git/git/commit/e1104a5ee539408b81566066aaa6963cb87d5cd6#diff-c24776ff22455a30fbb78e378b7df0b0R139 submodule.recurse option was added to git 2.14 Set as: git config –global submodule.recurse true man git-config says: Specifies if commands recurse into submodules by default. This applies to all commands that have a –recurse-submodules option. Defaults to false. … Read more
Detailed Solution See the note at the end of this answer (last paragraph) for a quick alternative to git submodules using npm 😉 In the following answer, you will know how to extract a folder from a repository and make a git repository from it and then including it as a submodule instead of a … Read more
You have added vendor/plugins/open_flash_chart_2 as “gitlink” entry, but never defined it as a submodule. Effectively you are using the internal feature that git submodule uses (gitlink entries) but you are not using the submodule feature itself. You probably did something like this: git clone git://github.com/korin/open_flash_chart_2_plugin.git vendor/plugins/open_flash_chart_2 git add vendor/plugins/open_flash_chart_2 This last command is the problem. … Read more
As of Git 2.14, you can use git pull –recurse-submodules (and alias it to whatever you like). As of Git 2.15, you could set submodule.recurse to true to enable the desired behaviour. You can do this globally by running: git config –global submodule.recurse true
No submodule mapping found in .gitmodules for path ‘OtherLibrary/MKStore’ when $ git submodule update –init I didn’t know why the error occur. After spending a minute and found the answer in stackoverflow. $ git rm –cached OtherLibrary/MKStore and then update the submodule again. It’s working fine. http://en.saturngod.net/no-submodule-mapping-found-in-gitmodules
Assuming the submodule’s repository does contain a commit you want to use (unlike the commit that is referenced from the current state of the super-project), there are two ways to do it. The first requires you to already know the commit from the submodule that you want to use. It works from the “inside, out” … Read more