(Update April 2017 for Git 2.13, Q2 2017) There is now an official command to determine if a repo is a submodule of a parent repo: cd /path/to/potential/submodule/repo git rev-parse –show-superproject-working-tree See commit bf0231c (08 Mar 2017) by Stefan Beller (stefanbeller). (Merged by Junio C Hamano — gitster — in commit 3edcc04, 17 Mar 2017) … Read more
Short answer git filter-branch offers exactly the functionality you want. With the –subdirectory-filter option you can create a new set of commits where the contents of subDirectory are at the root of the directory. git filter-branch –prune-empty –subdirectory-filter subDirectory — –branches Walkthrough The following is an example to perform this in a safe way. You … 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
Based on answers and comments here. You can create non-bare repo and run: git ls-files –recurse-submodules | tar caf ../prog.tar.gz -T- To handle files starting with hypen, use –verbatim-files-from To put files in folder inside the archive, use –xform s:^:prog/: Full version: git ls-files –recurse-submodules | tar caf ../prog.tar.gz –xform s:^:prog/: –verbatim-files-from -T-
No: Including a submodule in a public repository means recording its URL in a public .gitmodules file. The repository at that URL will not be any more accessible through a recursive clone of your repository than it is on its own. That is why, for instance, using submodules with GitHub Pages is not possible: You … Read more
Git tries to clone the submodule using ssh and not https. If you haven’t configured your ssh key this will fail. You can setup ssh-agent to cache the password for the ssh key and get git to use that. Or change to https. Git is a bit confusing regarding submodules. They are configured in the … Read more
Submodules, by definition, always reference particular SHA1 in the subproject. That SHA1 isn’t expressed in the .gitmodules file, but is instead expressed as the entry in the tree object that contains the submodule. The way you set this in git is by cding into the submodule, checking out the SHA1 you want, then cding back … Read more
I prefer using submodules over Nuget packages for frequently changing internal libraries. Here’s why: Merging: If several developers make changes to the same library at the same time, with submodules, these changes can be merged. With Nuget packages, obviously there’s no concept of merging. Less wait: With submodules, you push, and then pull with whatever … Read more
Run git checkout 025ffc in the submodule directory and then git add SubmoduleName; git commit -m ‘Some message’ in the main directory. (Remember that checking out a commit through its hash leaves you in “detached HEAD state”, meaning that you’re not on any branch. So if there already is a branch pointing to 025ffc in … Read more
check that you have the proper setting in .git/modules as well. Since a few versions ago, git adds an entry there. Also, the tree probably has a commit object at that path. To get rid of it you can git rm –cached Classes/lib/AFKissXMLRequestOperation that should get rid of it once and for all.