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I have an extremely weird issue with git. I have never seen it before, none of my coworkers have seen it before, but it's reproducible on my PC The setup: we have a main repository, project we use ...
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How do I remove a Git submodule? Why can't I do git submodule rm module_name?
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My team manages a few dozen repositories; Java, Angular, LDAP, and a number of other "types" of code. To smooth things out between these repos our devops guy wrote some shell scripts that ...
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We're using git submodules to manage a couple of large projects that have dependencies on many other libraries we've developed. Each library is a separate repo brought into the dependent project as a ...
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How do I clone a git repository so that it also clones its submodules? Running git clone $REPO_URL merely creates empty submodule directories.
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I have a project with a Git submodule. It is from an ssh://... URL, and is on commit A. Commit B has been pushed to that URL, and I want the submodule to retrieve the commit, and change to it. Now, ...
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How does git submodule add -b work? After adding a submodule with a specific branch, a new cloned repository (after git submodule update --init) will be at a specific commit, not the branch itself (...
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I have a project named sample which have 2 submodules sampleA and sampleB. I also have another git repo named Example which also refers to same submodule sampleA and sampleB. When I change something ...
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We keep our library in a git submodule: . └── app ├── submodule_lib │   └── test └── test submodule_lib is a standalone compilation target and has its own tests. The problem arises when I ...
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I have a project where I have checked out the main branch, which has 2 submodules: vendor/foo and vendor/bar. If I create a worktree for a feature branch with git worktree add ../feature feature, this ...
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I work in a large shared repo that has submodules that I never touch, but that I can't just git-ignore because sometimes they get changes that affect things I do touch. For instance, if I branch off ...
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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-...
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Note: while the use-case described is about using submodules within a project, the same applies to a normal git clone of a repository over HTTP. I have a project under Git control. I'd like to add a ...
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I have a Git repository that has several submodules in it. How do I list the names of all the submodules after git submodule init has been run? The git submodule foreach command could echo the names ...
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I've created a git repository with a submodule in it. I'm able to tell the submodule itself to change its remote repository path, but I'm not sure how to tell the parent repository how to change the ...
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