Is there a way to copy files from the submodules as well when doing git checkout-index? I already checked the documentation of git checkout-index but it makes no mention of submodules

I have a git project with several sub-modules (a choice I somewhat regret in retrospect). It uses gnu make Currently I expect people to issue by hand a git submodule update --init1 before buildin...

I have a build job in Jenkins created by the Github Organization plugin. The Jenkinsfile for this build checkouts the code using checkout scm which is good as it figures out the correct branch/revi...

Somewhen (around the 1.6.x releases, I think) git became aware of changes inside submodules. That only serves to annoy me: $ git status vendor | grep modified: # modified: vendor/rails (modified ...

Is there some easy way to rename a git submodule directory (other than going through the entire motion of deleting it and re-adding it with a new destination name). And while we are at it, why is...

I have list of submodules in .gitmodules. I want to download a specific submodule i.e grpc only if there is some option enabled as true in config file. Since grpc is not required at times for my b...

There are useful answers how to remove submodules "locally" - How do I remove a submodule? However I have the issue I have clones of my repo on several machines. Two I only work once or twice a mo...

I have in a folder a large number of projects that I cloned for quite some time; recently I moved this whole folder into one of my repos and would like to convert these cloned projects into submodu...

I'm trying to set up an Xcode bot with OSX server. After configuring the git repository and creating a bot, I run integrate. It fails because the repository is checked out only partially. More prec...

My project is split into gitmodules like so: / + | +-module_1 | | | +- cloudbuild.yaml | +- src/ | +-.git/ | +-module_2 | | | +- cloudbuild.yaml | +- src/ | +-.git/ | +- .git/ +...

I'm trying to use git submodules for aggregating 10+ repositories into one structure for easy development. It is supposed to clone the module and checkout a branch. Instead, the module is checked ...

Today I started getting a new warning from git that I haven't seen before regarding my submodules. For example: warning: <hash_omitted>:.gitmodules, multiple configurations found for 'submod...

I'm recently put a repository into bitbucket. And this repository has some submodules I'm working on a Initialization script. I would like to clone the main directory and them pull all subdirector...

How can I do the reverse of git submodule absorbgitdirs? I.e. move a submodule's .git information out of superproject/.git/modules/<module> and back to the superproject/path/to/<module>...

I always struggle to write good git commit messages for commits which did nothing except update which commit a submodule is on. What I really want to write is "just read the freaking submodule comm...

I am using Twitter's Fabric on my iOS app. Crashlytics in Fabric just updated itself and now I cannot commit my project to git. I get the error: git error: unable to index file Crashlytics.framewo...

I recently put some of my projects on github to make them open source but I'm having trouble understanding how to structure the projects properly. I've got a Core project and another project that ...

I'm creating cocos2d-x game and include upstream cocos fom git (it include some critical fixes and features). However, using SDKBOX require patching some cocos files (which is in submodule). Is it...

My personal repository has some repositories as submodules. And the following command $ git submodule foreach git pull origin master was faced with the following result right after entering ruby...

I have an R package on github. This R package has C++ dependencies which I include in /src. The correct way I would normally do this (outside of R) is create submodules within the github repo, wh...

I've added a submodule in my main git folder tree and haven't changed anything but it's showing up modified. What do I do about this? $ git status # On branch master # Changed but not updated: # (...

I'm trying to fork a github repo which uses several sub-modules. If I just fork the repo, the submodules are still referencing the original submodules (i.e., the submodules themselves arent forked)...

having trouble getting my head around submodules They appear to be unnecessarily complicated. Normally I totally avoid them but a project has forced me into this situation So... I have a git rep...

I have a repository that contains the code for an old version of a website that is no longer being used on master. The site was completely redesigned in a new repository, and the code and history f...

I'm trying to get just a folder from an external github repo to use in my project. I want my project setup to be like this: -my_project -submodule -code.py -MY_README -.git And I have the r...