This question already has answers here: Git commit to common submodule (master branch) (6 answers) Closed 9 years ago. I have, in my naivety, set up a git submodule and treated it like a Subversion external – i.e. it’s now full of changes that I’ve just realized haven’t been committed or pushed anywhere. Is there … Read more
I have a project with a submodule that is pointing to an invalid commit: the submodule commit remained local and when I try to fetch it from another repo I get: $ git submodule update fatal: reference is not a tree: 2d7cfbd09fc96c04c4c41148d44ed7778add6b43 Unable to checkout ‘2d7cfbd09fc96c04c4c41148d44ed7778add6b43’ in submodule path ‘mysubmodule’ I know what the submodule … Read more
What are the conceptual differences between using git submodule and subtree? What are the typical scenarios for each? 5 Answers 5
My project struture ProjectA -FrameworkA (submodule) –Twig (submodule of FrameworkA) How I can update submodules recursively? I already tried some git commands (on ProjectA root) git submodule foreach git pull origin master or git submodule foreach –recursive git pull origin master but cannot pull files of Twig. 6 Answers 6
I have a git submodule (RestKit) which I have added to my repo. I accidentally changed some files in there and I’d like to go back to the source version. In order to do that, I tried to run Mac:app-ios user$ git submodule update RestKit But as you can see here, this did not work … Read more
I have a project A which is a library and it is used in a project B. Both projects A and B have a separate repository on github BUT inside B we have a submodule of A. I edited some classes on the library, which is in the repo A, I pushed on the remote … Read more
I have a git repo in ~/.janus/ with a bunch of submodules in it. I want to add a submodule in ~/.janus/snipmate-snippets/snippets/, but when I run git submodule add <[email protected]:…> in the snipmate-snippets directory, I get the following error message: You need to run this command from the toplevel of the working tree. So the … Read more
I have a project that has a submodule at lib/three20 My .gitmodule file looks like this: [submodule “lib/three20”] path = lib/three20 url = git://github.com/facebook/three20.git I have cloned this in the past without errors, (git submodule init followed by a git submodule update) and it’s been working for a while. I tried to clone this to … Read more
What are the best practices for un-submoduling a Git submodule, bringing all the code back into the core repository? 13 Answers 13
I would like to change the directory name of a Git submodule in my Git superproject. Lets suppose I have the following entry in my .gitmodules file: [submodule “.emacs.d/vimpulse”] path = .emacs.d/vimpulse url = git://gitorious.org/vimpulse/vimpulse.git What do I have to type to move the .emacs.d/vimpulse directory to .emacs.d/vendor/vimpulse without deleting it first (explained here and … Read more
