* add/init all git submodules that are referenced in .gitmodules
@ 2021-10-05 23:52 Alexander Mills
2021-10-06 19:28 ` Jeff King
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From: Alexander Mills @ 2021-10-05 23:52 UTC (permalink / raw)
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I am looking for this feature:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/69458406/1223975
it is really confusing as to why it doesn't exist
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* Re: add/init all git submodules that are referenced in .gitmodules
2021-10-05 23:52 add/init all git submodules that are referenced in .gitmodules Alexander Mills
@ 2021-10-06 19:28 ` Jeff King
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From: Jeff King @ 2021-10-06 19:28 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Alexander Mills; +Cc: git
On Tue, Oct 05, 2021 at 04:52:00PM -0700, Alexander Mills wrote:
> I am looking for this feature:
>
> https://stackoverflow.com/a/69458406/1223975
>
> it is really confusing as to why it doesn't exist
I'm not sure I understand what is being asked for.
If you just want to initialize and populate all of the modules in
.gitmodules (which is what I thought your subject line was asking for),
then:
git submodule update --init
will do that (though of course if you are cloning anyway, you can just
say "--recurse-submodules).
But reading the original SO question, it is about finding repositories
in the current directory that _aren't_ submodules, and then adding them.
But those ones wouldn't be referenced in .gitmodules.
For that problem, no, I don't think there's an easy command, and you
have to dig for them (though "git ls-files -o --exclude-standard" is
perhaps a good way to locate them). But it's also not something I'd
expect to be a very common operation, which is why there's not an
existing command to do it.
-Peff
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