NAME

       gitmodules - defining submodule properties

SYNOPSIS

       $GIT_WORK_DIR/.gitmodules

DESCRIPTION

       The .gitmodules file, located in the top-level directory of a Git working tree, is a text
       file with a syntax matching the requirements of git-config(1).

       The file contains one subsection per submodule, and the subsection value is the name of
       the submodule. The name is set to the path where the submodule has been added unless it
       was customized with the --name option of git submodule add. Each submodule section also
       contains the following required keys:

       submodule.<name>.path
           Defines the path, relative to the top-level directory of the Git working tree, where
           the submodule is expected to be checked out. The path name must not end with a /. All
           submodule paths must be unique within the .gitmodules file.

       submodule.<name>.url
           Defines a URL from which the submodule repository can be cloned. This may be either an
           absolute URL ready to be passed to git-clone(1) or (if it begins with ./ or ../) a
           location relative to the superproject’s origin repository.

       In addition, there are a number of optional keys:

       submodule.<name>.update
           Defines the default update procedure for the named submodule, i.e. how the submodule
           is updated by "git submodule update" command in the superproject. This is only used by
           git submodule init to initialize the configuration variable of the same name. Allowed
           values here are checkout, rebase, merge or none. See description of update command in
           git-submodule(1) for their meaning. For security reasons, the !command form is not
           accepted here.

       submodule.<name>.branch
           A remote branch name for tracking updates in the upstream submodule. If the option is
           not specified, it defaults to master. See the --remote documentation in git-
           submodule(1) for details.

       submodule.<name>.fetchRecurseSubmodules
           This option can be used to control recursive fetching of this submodule. If this
           option is also present in the submodules entry in .git/config of the superproject, the
           setting there will override the one found in .gitmodules. Both settings can be
           overridden on the command line by using the "--[no-]recurse-submodules" option to "git
           fetch" and "git pull".

       submodule.<name>.ignore
           Defines under what circumstances "git status" and the diff family show a submodule as
           modified. When set to "all", it will never be considered modified (but will
           nonetheless show up in the output of status and commit when it has been staged),
           "dirty" will ignore all changes to the submodules work tree and takes only differences
           between the HEAD of the submodule and the commit recorded in the superproject into
           account. "untracked" will additionally let submodules with modified tracked files in
           their work tree show up. Using "none" (the default when this option is not set) also
           shows submodules that have untracked files in their work tree as changed. If this
           option is also present in the submodules entry in .git/config of the superproject, the
           setting there will override the one found in .gitmodules. Both settings can be
           overridden on the command line by using the "--ignore-submodule" option. The git
           submodule commands are not affected by this setting.

EXAMPLES

       Consider the following .gitmodules file:

           [submodule "libfoo"]
                   path = include/foo
                   url = git://foo.com/git/lib.git

           [submodule "libbar"]
                   path = include/bar
                   url = git://bar.com/git/lib.git

       This defines two submodules, libfoo and libbar. These are expected to be checked out in
       the paths include/foo and include/bar, and for both submodules a URL is specified which
       can be used for cloning the submodules.

SEE ALSO

       git-submodule(1) git-config(1)

GIT

       Part of the git(1) suite