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1git-submodule(1)
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3
4NAME
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6git-submodule - Initialize, update or inspect submodules
7
8
9SYNOPSIS
10--------
11'git-submodule' [--quiet] [--cached] [status|init|update] [--] [<path>...]
12
13
14COMMANDS
15--------
16status::
17 Show the status of the submodules. This will print the SHA-1 of the
18 currently checked out commit for each submodule, along with the
19 submodule path and the output of gitlink:git-describe[1] for the
20 SHA-1. Each SHA-1 will be prefixed with `-` if the submodule is not
21 initialized and `+` if the currently checked out submodule commit
22 does not match the SHA-1 found in the index of the containing
23 repository. This command is the default command for git-submodule.
24
25init::
26 Initialize the submodules, i.e. clone the git repositories specified
27 in the .gitmodules file and checkout the submodule commits specified
28 in the index of the containing repository. This will make the
29 submodules HEAD be detached.
30
31update::
32 Update the initialized submodules, i.e. checkout the submodule commits
33 specified in the index of the containing repository. This will make
34 the submodules HEAD be detached.
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36
37OPTIONS
38-------
39-q, --quiet::
40 Only print error messages.
41
42--cached::
43 Display the SHA-1 stored in the index, not the SHA-1 of the currently
44 checked out submodule commit. This option is only valid for the
45 status command.
46
47<path>::
48 Path to submodule(s). When specified this will restrict the command
49 to only operate on the submodules found at the specified paths.
50
51FILES
52-----
53When cloning submodules, a .gitmodules file in the top-level directory
54of the containing repository is used to find the url of each submodule.
55This file should be formatted in the same way as $GIR_DIR/config. The key
56to each submodule url is "module.$path.url".
57
58
59AUTHOR
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61Written by Lars Hjemli <hjemli@gmail.com>
62
63GIT
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65Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite