Newer versions of git Git now has native support for moving submodules: Since git 1.8.5, git mv old/submod new/submod works as expected and does all the plumbing for you. You might want to use git 1.9.3 or newer, because it includes fixes for submodule moving. Older versions of git As mentioned in the comments, this … Read more
You can also set the HTTP proxy that Git uses in global configuration property http.proxy: git config –global http.proxy http://proxy.mycompany:80 To authenticate with the proxy: git config –global http.proxy http://mydomain\\myusername:mypassword@myproxyserver:8080/ (Credit goes to @EugeneKulabuhov and @JaimeReynoso for the authentication format.)
You should just be able to edit the .gitmodules file to update the URL and then run git submodule sync –recursive to reflect that change to the superproject and your working copy. Then you need to go to the .git/modules/path_to_submodule dir and change its config file to update git path. If repo history is different … Read more
I’d like to add an answer here that is really just a conglomerate of other answers, but I think it may be more complete. You know you have a Git submodule when you have these two things. Your .gitmodules has an entry like so: [submodule “SubmoduleTestRepo”] path = SubmoduleTestRepo url = https://github.com/jzaccone/SubmoduleTestRepo.git You have a … 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
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
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