How do I add a submodule to a sub-directory?

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Robert Audi picture Robert Audi · Jan 27, 2012 · Viewed 240.3k times · Source

I have a git repo in ~/.janus/ with a bunch of submodules in it. I want to add a submodule in ~/.janus/snipmate-snippets/snippets/, but when I run git submodule add <[email protected]:...> in the snipmate-snippets directory, I get the following error message:

You need to run this command from the toplevel of the working tree.

So the question is: How do I add a submodule to the snipmate-snippets directory?

Answer

BergmannF picture BergmannF · Jan 27, 2012

You go into ~/.janus and run:

git submodule add <git@github ...> snipmate-snippets/snippets/

If you need more information about submodules (or git in general) ProGit is pretty useful.

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