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NAME

       git-submodule - Initialize, update or inspect submodules

SYNOPSIS

       git submodule [--quiet] [--cached]
       git submodule [--quiet] add [<options>] [--] <repository> [<path>]
       git submodule [--quiet] status [--cached] [--recursive] [--] [<path>...]
       git submodule [--quiet] init [--] [<path>...]
       git submodule [--quiet] deinit [-f|--force] (--all|[--] <path>...)
       git submodule [--quiet] update [<options>] [--] [<path>...]
       git submodule [--quiet] set-branch [<options>] [--] <path>
       git submodule [--quiet] set-url [--] <path> <newurl>
       git submodule [--quiet] summary [<options>] [--] [<path>...]
       git submodule [--quiet] foreach [--recursive] <command>
       git submodule [--quiet] sync [--recursive] [--] [<path>...]
       git submodule [--quiet] absorbgitdirs [--] [<path>...]

DESCRIPTION

       Inspects, updates and manages submodules.

       For more information about submodules, see gitsubmodules(7).

COMMANDS

       With no arguments, shows the status of existing submodules. Several subcommands are
       available to perform operations on the submodules.

       add [-b <branch>] [-f|--force] [--name <name>] [--reference <repository>] [--depth
       <depth>] [--] <repository> [<path>]
           Add the given repository as a submodule at the given path to the changeset to be
           committed next to the current project: the current project is termed the
           "superproject".

           <repository> is the URL of the new submodule’s origin repository. This may be either
           an absolute URL, or (if it begins with ./ or ../), the location relative to the
           superproject’s default remote repository (Please note that to specify a repository
           foo.git which is located right next to a superproject bar.git, you’ll have to use
           ../foo.git instead of ./foo.git - as one might expect when following the rules for
           relative URLs - because the evaluation of relative URLs in Git is identical to that of
           relative directories).

           The default remote is the remote of the remote-tracking branch of the current branch.
           If no such remote-tracking branch exists or the HEAD is detached, "origin" is assumed
           to be the default remote. If the superproject doesn’t have a default remote configured
           the superproject is its own authoritative upstream and the current working directory
           is used instead.

           The optional argument <path> is the relative location for the cloned submodule to
           exist in the superproject. If <path> is not given, the canonical part of the source
           repository is used ("repo" for "/path/to/repo.git" and "foo" for "host.xz:foo/.git").
           If <path> exists and is already a valid Git repository, then it is staged for commit
           without cloning. The <path> is also used as the submodule’s logical name in its
           configuration entries unless --name is used to specify a logical name.

           The given URL is recorded into .gitmodules for use by subsequent users cloning the
           superproject. If the URL is given relative to the superproject’s repository, the
           presumption is the superproject and submodule repositories will be kept together in
           the same relative location, and only the superproject’s URL needs to be provided.
           git-submodule will correctly locate the submodule using the relative URL in
           .gitmodules.

       status [--cached] [--recursive] [--] [<path>...]
           Show the status of the submodules. This will print the SHA-1 of the currently checked
           out commit for each submodule, along with the submodule path and the output of git
           describe for the SHA-1. Each SHA-1 will possibly be prefixed with - if the submodule
           is not initialized, + if the currently checked out submodule commit does not match the
           SHA-1 found in the index of the containing repository and U if the submodule has merge
           conflicts.

           If --cached is specified, this command will instead print the SHA-1 recorded in the
           superproject for each submodule.

           If --recursive is specified, this command will recurse into nested submodules, and
           show their status as well.

           If you are only interested in changes of the currently initialized submodules with
           respect to the commit recorded in the index or the HEAD, git-status(1) and git-diff(1)
           will provide that information too (and can also report changes to a submodule’s work
           tree).

       init [--] [<path>...]
           Initialize the submodules recorded in the index (which were added and committed
           elsewhere) by setting submodule.$name.url in .git/config. It uses the same setting
           from .gitmodules as a template. If the URL is relative, it will be resolved using the
           default remote. If there is no default remote, the current repository will be assumed
           to be upstream.

           Optional <path> arguments limit which submodules will be initialized. If no path is
           specified and submodule.active has been configured, submodules configured to be active
           will be initialized, otherwise all submodules are initialized.

           When present, it will also copy the value of submodule.$name.update. This command does
           not alter existing information in .git/config. You can then customize the submodule
           clone URLs in .git/config for your local setup and proceed to git submodule update;
           you can also just use git submodule update --init without the explicit init step if
           you do not intend to customize any submodule locations.

           See the add subcommand for the definition of default remote.

       deinit [-f|--force] (--all|[--] <path>...)
           Unregister the given submodules, i.e. remove the whole submodule.$name section from
           .git/config together with their work tree. Further calls to git submodule update, git
           submodule foreach and git submodule sync will skip any unregistered submodules until
           they are initialized again, so use this command if you don’t want to have a local
           checkout of the submodule in your working tree anymore.

           When the command is run without pathspec, it errors out, instead of deinit-ing
           everything, to prevent mistakes.

           If --force is specified, the submodule’s working tree will be removed even if it
           contains local modifications.

           If you really want to remove a submodule from the repository and commit that use git-
           rm(1) instead. See gitsubmodules(7) for removal options.

       update [--init] [--remote] [-N|--no-fetch] [--[no-]recommend-shallow] [-f|--force]
       [--checkout|--rebase|--merge] [--reference <repository>] [--depth <depth>] [--recursive]
       [--jobs <n>] [--] [<path>...]
           Update the registered submodules to match what the superproject expects by cloning
           missing submodules, fetching missing commits in submodules and updating the working
           tree of the submodules. The "updating" can be done in several ways depending on
           command line options and the value of submodule.<name>.update configuration variable.
           The command line option takes precedence over the configuration variable. If neither
           is given, a checkout is performed. The update procedures supported both from the
           command line as well as through the submodule.<name>.update configuration are:

           checkout
               the commit recorded in the superproject will be checked out in the submodule on a
               detached HEAD.

               If --force is specified, the submodule will be checked out (using git checkout
               --force), even if the commit specified in the index of the containing repository
               already matches the commit checked out in the submodule.

           rebase
               the current branch of the submodule will be rebased onto the commit recorded in
               the superproject.

           merge
               the commit recorded in the superproject will be merged into the current branch in
               the submodule.

           The following update procedures are only available via the submodule.<name>.update
           configuration variable:

           custom command
               arbitrary shell command that takes a single argument (the sha1 of the commit
               recorded in the superproject) is executed. When submodule.<name>.update is set to
               !command, the remainder after the exclamation mark is the custom command.

           none
               the submodule is not updated.

           If the submodule is not yet initialized, and you just want to use the setting as
           stored in .gitmodules, you can automatically initialize the submodule with the --init
           option.

           If --recursive is specified, this command will recurse into the registered submodules,
           and update any nested submodules within.

       set-branch (-b|--branch) <branch> [--] <path>, set-branch (-d|--default) [--] <path>
           Sets the default remote tracking branch for the submodule. The --branch option allows
           the remote branch to be specified. The --default option removes the
           submodule.<name>.branch configuration key, which causes the tracking branch to default
           to master.

       set-url [--] <path> <newurl>
           Sets the URL of the specified submodule to <newurl>. Then, it will automatically
           synchronize the submodule’s new remote URL configuration.

       summary [--cached|--files] [(-n|--summary-limit) <n>] [commit] [--] [<path>...]
           Show commit summary between the given commit (defaults to HEAD) and working
           tree/index. For a submodule in question, a series of commits in the submodule between
           the given super project commit and the index or working tree (switched by --cached)
           are shown. If the option --files is given, show the series of commits in the submodule
           between the index of the super project and the working tree of the submodule (this
           option doesn’t allow to use the --cached option or to provide an explicit commit).

           Using the --submodule=log option with git-diff(1) will provide that information too.

       foreach [--recursive] <command>
           Evaluates an arbitrary shell command in each checked out submodule. The command has
           access to the variables $name, $sm_path, $displaypath, $sha1 and $toplevel: $name is
           the name of the relevant submodule section in .gitmodules, $sm_path is the path of the
           submodule as recorded in the immediate superproject, $displaypath contains the
           relative path from the current working directory to the submodules root directory,
           $sha1 is the commit as recorded in the immediate superproject, and $toplevel is the
           absolute path to the top-level of the immediate superproject. Note that to avoid
           conflicts with $PATH on Windows, the $path variable is now a deprecated synonym of
           $sm_path variable. Any submodules defined in the superproject but not checked out are
           ignored by this command. Unless given --quiet, foreach prints the name of each
           submodule before evaluating the command. If --recursive is given, submodules are
           traversed recursively (i.e. the given shell command is evaluated in nested submodules
           as well). A non-zero return from the command in any submodule causes the processing to
           terminate. This can be overridden by adding || : to the end of the command.

           As an example, the command below will show the path and currently checked out commit
           for each submodule:

               git submodule foreach 'echo $sm_path `git rev-parse HEAD`'

       sync [--recursive] [--] [<path>...]
           Synchronizes submodules' remote URL configuration setting to the value specified in
           .gitmodules. It will only affect those submodules which already have a URL entry in
           .git/config (that is the case when they are initialized or freshly added). This is
           useful when submodule URLs change upstream and you need to update your local
           repositories accordingly.

           git submodule sync synchronizes all submodules while git submodule sync -- A
           synchronizes submodule "A" only.

           If --recursive is specified, this command will recurse into the registered submodules,
           and sync any nested submodules within.

       absorbgitdirs
           If a git directory of a submodule is inside the submodule, move the git directory of
           the submodule into its superproject’s $GIT_DIR/modules path and then connect the git
           directory and its working directory by setting the core.worktree and adding a .git
           file pointing to the git directory embedded in the superprojects git directory.

           A repository that was cloned independently and later added as a submodule or old
           setups have the submodules git directory inside the submodule instead of embedded into
           the superprojects git directory.

           This command is recursive by default.

OPTIONS

       -q, --quiet
           Only print error messages.

       --progress
           This option is only valid for add and update commands. Progress status is reported on
           the standard error stream by default when it is attached to a terminal, unless -q is
           specified. This flag forces progress status even if the standard error stream is not
           directed to a terminal.

       --all
           This option is only valid for the deinit command. Unregister all submodules in the
           working tree.

       -b <branch>, --branch <branch>
           Branch of repository to add as submodule. The name of the branch is recorded as
           submodule.<name>.branch in .gitmodules for update --remote. A special value of .  is
           used to indicate that the name of the branch in the submodule should be the same name
           as the current branch in the current repository. If the option is not specified, it
           defaults to master.

       -f, --force
           This option is only valid for add, deinit and update commands. When running add, allow
           adding an otherwise ignored submodule path. When running deinit the submodule working
           trees will be removed even if they contain local changes. When running update (only
           effective with the checkout procedure), throw away local changes in submodules when
           switching to a different commit; and always run a checkout operation in the submodule,
           even if the commit listed in the index of the containing repository matches the commit
           checked out in the submodule.

       --cached
           This option is only valid for status and summary commands. These commands typically
           use the commit found in the submodule HEAD, but with this option, the commit stored in
           the index is used instead.

       --files
           This option is only valid for the summary command. This command compares the commit in
           the index with that in the submodule HEAD when this option is used.

       -n, --summary-limit
           This option is only valid for the summary command. Limit the summary size (number of
           commits shown in total). Giving 0 will disable the summary; a negative number means
           unlimited (the default). This limit only applies to modified submodules. The size is
           always limited to 1 for added/deleted/typechanged submodules.

       --remote
           This option is only valid for the update command. Instead of using the superproject’s
           recorded SHA-1 to update the submodule, use the status of the submodule’s
           remote-tracking branch. The remote used is branch’s remote (branch.<name>.remote),
           defaulting to origin. The remote branch used defaults to master, but the branch name
           may be overridden by setting the submodule.<name>.branch option in either .gitmodules
           or .git/config (with .git/config taking precedence).

           This works for any of the supported update procedures (--checkout, --rebase, etc.).
           The only change is the source of the target SHA-1. For example, submodule update
           --remote --merge will merge upstream submodule changes into the submodules, while
           submodule update --merge will merge superproject gitlink changes into the submodules.

           In order to ensure a current tracking branch state, update --remote fetches the
           submodule’s remote repository before calculating the SHA-1. If you don’t want to
           fetch, you should use submodule update --remote --no-fetch.

           Use this option to integrate changes from the upstream subproject with your
           submodule’s current HEAD. Alternatively, you can run git pull from the submodule,
           which is equivalent except for the remote branch name: update --remote uses the
           default upstream repository and submodule.<name>.branch, while git pull uses the
           submodule’s branch.<name>.merge. Prefer submodule.<name>.branch if you want to
           distribute the default upstream branch with the superproject and branch.<name>.merge
           if you want a more native feel while working in the submodule itself.

       -N, --no-fetch
           This option is only valid for the update command. Don’t fetch new objects from the
           remote site.

       --checkout
           This option is only valid for the update command. Checkout the commit recorded in the
           superproject on a detached HEAD in the submodule. This is the default behavior, the
           main use of this option is to override submodule.$name.update when set to a value
           other than checkout. If the key submodule.$name.update is either not explicitly set or
           set to checkout, this option is implicit.

       --merge
           This option is only valid for the update command. Merge the commit recorded in the
           superproject into the current branch of the submodule. If this option is given, the
           submodule’s HEAD will not be detached. If a merge failure prevents this process, you
           will have to resolve the resulting conflicts within the submodule with the usual
           conflict resolution tools. If the key submodule.$name.update is set to merge, this
           option is implicit.

       --rebase
           This option is only valid for the update command. Rebase the current branch onto the
           commit recorded in the superproject. If this option is given, the submodule’s HEAD
           will not be detached. If a merge failure prevents this process, you will have to
           resolve these failures with git-rebase(1). If the key submodule.$name.update is set to
           rebase, this option is implicit.

       --init
           This option is only valid for the update command. Initialize all submodules for which
           "git submodule init" has not been called so far before updating.

       --name
           This option is only valid for the add command. It sets the submodule’s name to the
           given string instead of defaulting to its path. The name must be valid as a directory
           name and may not end with a /.

       --reference <repository>
           This option is only valid for add and update commands. These commands sometimes need
           to clone a remote repository. In this case, this option will be passed to the git-
           clone(1) command.

           NOTE: Do not use this option unless you have read the note for git-clone(1)'s
           --reference, --shared, and --dissociate options carefully.

       --dissociate
           This option is only valid for add and update commands. These commands sometimes need
           to clone a remote repository. In this case, this option will be passed to the git-
           clone(1) command.

           NOTE: see the NOTE for the --reference option.

       --recursive
           This option is only valid for foreach, update, status and sync commands. Traverse
           submodules recursively. The operation is performed not only in the submodules of the
           current repo, but also in any nested submodules inside those submodules (and so on).

       --depth
           This option is valid for add and update commands. Create a shallow clone with a
           history truncated to the specified number of revisions. See git-clone(1)

       --[no-]recommend-shallow
           This option is only valid for the update command. The initial clone of a submodule
           will use the recommended submodule.<name>.shallow as provided by the .gitmodules file
           by default. To ignore the suggestions use --no-recommend-shallow.

       -j <n>, --jobs <n>
           This option is only valid for the update command. Clone new submodules in parallel
           with as many jobs. Defaults to the submodule.fetchJobs option.

       <path>...
           Paths to submodule(s). When specified this will restrict the command to only operate
           on the submodules found at the specified paths. (This argument is required with add).

FILES

       When initializing submodules, a .gitmodules file in the top-level directory of the
       containing repository is used to find the url of each submodule. This file should be
       formatted in the same way as $GIT_DIR/config. The key to each submodule url is
       "submodule.$name.url". See gitmodules(5) for details.

SEE ALSO

       gitsubmodules(7), gitmodules(5).

GIT

       Part of the git(1) suite