When should I use git submodules?
Its more accurate to say that git submodules are useful when you want to share code that you also need change along with the consumer of that code. If you’re not trying to change the shared code along with the consumer of that code, there are better options for sharing your code.
What could submodules be used for?
Git submodules allow you to keep a git repository as a subdirectory of another git repository. Git submodules are simply a reference to another repository at a particular snapshot in time. Git submodules enable a Git repository to incorporate and track version history of external code.
What is git Subrepo?
Use git subrepo help to get help for a specific command. Use –all to get a summary of all commands. The help command accepts the –all option. This simply does a git pull on the git repository that the code is running from. It only works if you are on the master branch.
How do I pull up the latest submodule?
if you want to pull your submodules to latest commits instead of the current commit the repo points to. Probably you should use git submodule update –recursive nowadays. update will update each submodule to the specified revision, not update it to the latest for that repository.
How do I pull a git repository with submodules?
The list of steps required to clone a Git repository with submodules is:
- Issue a git clone command on the parent repository.
- Issue a git submodule init command.
- Issue a git submodule update command.
How do I add a submodule to a Git project?
To add a new submodule you use the git submodule add command with the absolute or relative URL of the project you would like to start tracking. In this example, we’ll add a library called “DbConnector”.
When to use–recurse-submodules flag in Git?
Luckily, you can tell Git (>=2.14) to always use the –recurse-submodules flag by setting the configuration option submodule.recurse: git config submodule.recurse true. As noted above, this will also make Git recurse into submodules for every command that has a –recurse-submodules option (except git clone ).
What happens to the submodule when you switch branches in Git?
Indeed, if you switch between branches that record the submodule at different commits, upon executing git status the submodule will appear as “modified”, and indicate “new commits”. That is because the submodule state is by default not carried over when switching branches.
What do you get when you clone a Git project?
When you clone such a project, by default you get the directories that contain submodules, but none of the files within them yet: