git submodule init only considers submodules that already are in the index (i.e. “staged”) for initialization. I would write a short script that parses .gitmodules, and for each url and path pair runs: git submodule add <url> <path> For example, you could use the following script: #!/bin/sh set -e git config -f .gitmodules –get-regexp ‘^submodule\..*\.path$’ … Read more
I end up there by searching how to update specific submodule only, which means for me, updating a submodule to the ref pointed by its super-repo. Which is not the question nor the answer but only the title. So in a hope of helping some others like me the answer to the question title is … Read more
Which is best for you depends on your needs, desires, and workflow. They are in some senses semi-isomorphic, it is just some are a lot easier to use than others for specific tasks. gitslave is useful when you control and develop on the subprojects at more of less the same time as the superproject, and … Read more
If manually editing the patch file is out of the question or infeasible, this can be done with standard options (available in git apply, git format-patch and GNU patch). -p<n> removes n leading directories from the paths in the patch. After processing -p, –directory=<root> prepends root to each of the paths in the patch before … Read more
You have the git submodule deinit git submodule deinit <asubmodule> git rm <asubmodule> # Note: asubmodule (no trailing slash) # or, if you want to leave it in your working tree git rm –cached <asubmodule> rm -rf .git/modules/<asubmodule> deinit Un-register the given submodules, i.e. remove the whole submodule.$name section from .git/config together with their work … Read more
What you want to do is not feasible because you cannot clone a part of a repository. See details in duplicate How to change a git submodule to point to a subfolder?
You can use git filter-branch to rewrite the history of a project. From the documentation: To rewrite the repository to look as if foodir/ had been its project root, and discard all other history: git filter-branch –subdirectory-filter foodir — –all Make several copies of your repo, do that for each subdirectory you want to split … Read more
If the location (URL) of the submodule has changed, then you can simply: Modify the .gitmodules file in the repo root to use the new URL. Delete the submodule folder in the repo rm -rf .git/modules/<submodule>. Delete the submodule folder in the working directory rm -rf <submodule>. Run git submodule sync. Run git submodule update. … Read more
This article covers this relatively well: https://github.com/rrrene/gitscm-next/blob/master/app/views/blog/progit/2010-04-11-environment.markdown Basically if you’re working from the command-line this is simpler than you might guess. Suppose you want 2 git repos: .gitone .gittwo You could set them up like so: git init . mv .git .gitone git init . mv .git .gittwo You could add a file and commit … Read more
Imagine the repository has 10 submodules and you are interested in only two submodules of these. In such a case, you may want to get updates from only these two submodules from the remote repository from time to time. git init works well for this, because once you execute the command git init for these … Read more