I'm trying to put a submodule into a repo. The problem is that when I clone the parent repo, the submodule folder is entirely empty.
Is there any way to make it so that git clone parent_repo
actually puts data in the submodule folder?
For example, http://github.com/cwolves/sequelize/tree/master/lib/, nodejs-mysql-native
is pointing at an external git submodule, but when I checkout the sequelize
project, that folder is empty.
With version 2.13 of Git and later, --recurse-submodules
can be used instead of --recursive
:
git clone --recurse-submodules -j8 git://github.com/foo/bar.git
cd bar
Editor’s note: -j8
is an optional performance optimization that became available in version 2.8, and fetches up to 8 submodules at a time in parallel — see man git-clone
.
With version 1.9 of Git up until version 2.12 (-j
flag only available in version 2.8+):
git clone --recursive -j8 git://github.com/foo/bar.git
cd bar
With version 1.6.5 of Git and later, you can use:
git clone --recursive git://github.com/foo/bar.git
cd bar
For already cloned repos, or older Git versions, use:
git clone git://github.com/foo/bar.git
cd bar
git submodule update --init --recursive