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GIT-SUBMODULE(1)		  Git Manual		      GIT-SUBMODULE(1)

NAME
       git-submodule - Initialize, update or inspect submodules

SYNOPSIS
       git submodule [--quiet] add [-b <branch>] [-f|--force] [--name <name>]
		     [--reference <repository>] [--depth <depth>] [--] <repository> [<path>]
       git submodule [--quiet] status [--cached] [--recursive] [--] [<path>...]
       git submodule [--quiet] init [--] [<path>...]
       git submodule [--quiet] deinit [-f|--force] [--] <path>...
       git submodule [--quiet] update [--init] [--remote] [-N|--no-fetch]
		     [-f|--force] [--rebase] [--reference <repository>] [--depth <depth>]
		     [--merge] [--recursive] [--] [<path>...]
       git submodule [--quiet] summary [--cached|--files] [(-n|--summary-limit) <n>]
		     [commit] [--] [<path>...]
       git submodule [--quiet] foreach [--recursive] <command>
       git submodule [--quiet] sync [--] [<path>...]

DESCRIPTION
       Submodules allow foreign repositories to be embedded within a dedicated
       subdirectory of the source tree, always pointed at a particular commit.

       They are not to be confused with remotes, which are meant mainly for
       branches of the same project; submodules are meant for different
       projects you would like to make part of your source tree, while the
       history of the two projects still stays completely independent and you
       cannot modify the contents of the submodule from within the main
       project. If you want to merge the project histories and want to treat
       the aggregated whole as a single project from then on, you may want to
       add a remote for the other project and use the subtree merge strategy,
       instead of treating the other project as a submodule. Directories that
       come from both projects can be cloned and checked out as a whole if you
       choose to go that route.

       Submodules are composed from a so-called gitlink tree entry in the main
       repository that refers to a particular commit object within the inner
       repository that is completely separate. A record in the .gitmodules
       (see gitmodules(5)) file at the root of the source tree assigns a
       logical name to the submodule and describes the default URL the
       submodule shall be cloned from. The logical name can be used for
       overriding this URL within your local repository configuration (see
       submodule init).

       This command will manage the tree entries and contents of the
       gitmodules file for you, as well as inspect the status of your
       submodules and update them. When adding a new submodule to the tree,
       the add subcommand is to be used. However, when pulling a tree
       containing submodules, these will not be checked out by default; the
       init and update subcommands will maintain submodules checked out and at
       appropriate revision in your working tree. You can briefly inspect the
       up-to-date status of your submodules using the status subcommand and
       get a detailed overview of the difference between the index and
       checkouts using the summary subcommand.

COMMANDS
       add
	   Add the given repository as a submodule at the given path to the
	   changeset to be committed next to the current project: the current
	   project is termed the "superproject".

	   This requires at least one argument: <repository>. The optional
	   argument <path> is the relative location for the cloned submodule
	   to exist in the superproject. If <path> is not given, the
	   "humanish" part of the source repository is used ("repo" for
	   "/path/to/repo.git" and "foo" for "host.xz:foo/.git"). The <path>
	   is also used as the submodule’s logical name in its configuration
	   entries unless --name is used to specify a logical name.

	   <repository> is the URL of the new submodule’s origin repository.
	   This may be either an absolute URL, or (if it begins with ./ or
	   ../), the location relative to the superproject’s origin repository
	   (Please note that to specify a repository foo.git which is located
	   right next to a superproject bar.git, you’ll have to use ../foo.git
	   instead of ./foo.git - as one might expect when following the rules
	   for relative URLs - because the evaluation of relative URLs in Git
	   is identical to that of relative directories). If the superproject
	   doesn’t have an origin configured the superproject is its own
	   authoritative upstream and the current working directory is used
	   instead.

	   <path> is the relative location for the cloned submodule to exist
	   in the superproject. If <path> does not exist, then the submodule
	   is created by cloning from the named URL. If <path> does exist and
	   is already a valid Git repository, then this is added to the
	   changeset without cloning. This second form is provided to ease
	   creating a new submodule from scratch, and presumes the user will
	   later push the submodule to the given URL.

	   In either case, the given URL is recorded into .gitmodules for use
	   by subsequent users cloning the superproject. If the URL is given
	   relative to the superproject’s repository, the presumption is the
	   superproject and submodule repositories will be kept together in
	   the same relative location, and only the superproject’s URL needs
	   to be provided: git-submodule will correctly locate the submodule
	   using the relative URL in .gitmodules.

       status
	   Show the status of the submodules. This will print the SHA-1 of the
	   currently checked out commit for each submodule, along with the
	   submodule path and the output of git describe for the SHA-1. Each
	   SHA-1 will be prefixed with - if the submodule is not initialized,
	   + if the currently checked out submodule commit does not match the
	   SHA-1 found in the index of the containing repository and U if the
	   submodule has merge conflicts.

	   If --recursive is specified, this command will recurse into nested
	   submodules, and show their status as well.

	   If you are only interested in changes of the currently initialized
	   submodules with respect to the commit recorded in the index or the
	   HEAD, git-status(1) and git-diff(1) will provide that information
	   too (and can also report changes to a submodule’s work tree).

       init
	   Initialize the submodules recorded in the index (which were added
	   and committed elsewhere) by copying submodule names and urls from
	   .gitmodules to .git/config. Optional <path> arguments limit which
	   submodules will be initialized. It will also copy the value of
	   submodule.$name.update into .git/config. The key used in
	   .git/config is submodule.$name.url. This command does not alter
	   existing information in .git/config. You can then customize the
	   submodule clone URLs in .git/config for your local setup and
	   proceed to git submodule update; you can also just use git
	   submodule update --init without the explicit init step if you do
	   not intend to customize any submodule locations.

       deinit
	   Unregister the given submodules, i.e. remove the whole
	   submodule.$name section from .git/config together with their work
	   tree. Further calls to git submodule update, git submodule foreach
	   and git submodule sync will skip any unregistered submodules until
	   they are initialized again, so use this command if you don’t want
	   to have a local checkout of the submodule in your work tree
	   anymore. If you really want to remove a submodule from the
	   repository and commit that use git-rm(1) instead.

	   If --force is specified, the submodule’s work tree will be removed
	   even if it contains local modifications.

       update
	   Update the registered submodules, i.e. clone missing submodules and
	   checkout the commit specified in the index of the containing
	   repository. This will make the submodules HEAD be detached unless
	   --rebase or --merge is specified or the key submodule.$name.update
	   is set to rebase, merge or none.  none can be overridden by
	   specifying --checkout. Setting the key submodule.$name.update to
	   !command will cause command to be run.  command can be any
	   arbitrary shell command that takes a single argument, namely the
	   sha1 to update to.

	   If the submodule is not yet initialized, and you just want to use
	   the setting as stored in .gitmodules, you can automatically
	   initialize the submodule with the --init option.

	   If --recursive is specified, this command will recurse into the
	   registered submodules, and update any nested submodules within.

	   If --force is specified, the submodule will be checked out (using
	   git checkout --force if appropriate), even if the commit specified
	   in the index of the containing repository already matches the
	   commit checked out in the submodule.

       summary
	   Show commit summary between the given commit (defaults to HEAD) and
	   working tree/index. For a submodule in question, a series of
	   commits in the submodule between the given super project commit and
	   the index or working tree (switched by --cached) are shown. If the
	   option --files is given, show the series of commits in the
	   submodule between the index of the super project and the working
	   tree of the submodule (this option doesn’t allow to use the
	   --cached option or to provide an explicit commit).

	   Using the --submodule=log option with git-diff(1) will provide that
	   information too.

       foreach
	   Evaluates an arbitrary shell command in each checked out submodule.
	   The command has access to the variables $name, $path, $sha1 and
	   $toplevel: $name is the name of the relevant submodule section in
	   .gitmodules, $path is the name of the submodule directory relative
	   to the superproject, $sha1 is the commit as recorded in the
	   superproject, and $toplevel is the absolute path to the top-level
	   of the superproject. Any submodules defined in the superproject but
	   not checked out are ignored by this command. Unless given --quiet,
	   foreach prints the name of each submodule before evaluating the
	   command. If --recursive is given, submodules are traversed
	   recursively (i.e. the given shell command is evaluated in nested
	   submodules as well). A non-zero return from the command in any
	   submodule causes the processing to terminate. This can be
	   overridden by adding || : to the end of the command.

	   As an example, git submodule foreach 'echo $path `git rev-parse
	   HEAD`' will show the path and currently checked out commit for each
	   submodule.

       sync
	   Synchronizes submodules' remote URL configuration setting to the
	   value specified in .gitmodules. It will only affect those
	   submodules which already have a URL entry in .git/config (that is
	   the case when they are initialized or freshly added). This is
	   useful when submodule URLs change upstream and you need to update
	   your local repositories accordingly.

	   "git submodule sync" synchronizes all submodules while "git
	   submodule sync -- A" synchronizes submodule "A" only.

OPTIONS
       -q, --quiet
	   Only print error messages.

       -b, --branch
	   Branch of repository to add as submodule. The name of the branch is
	   recorded as submodule.<path>.branch in .gitmodules for update
	   --remote.

       -f, --force
	   This option is only valid for add, deinit and update commands. When
	   running add, allow adding an otherwise ignored submodule path. When
	   running deinit the submodule work trees will be removed even if
	   they contain local changes. When running update, throw away local
	   changes in submodules when switching to a different commit; and
	   always run a checkout operation in the submodule, even if the
	   commit listed in the index of the containing repository matches the
	   commit checked out in the submodule.

       --cached
	   This option is only valid for status and summary commands. These
	   commands typically use the commit found in the submodule HEAD, but
	   with this option, the commit stored in the index is used instead.

       --files
	   This option is only valid for the summary command. This command
	   compares the commit in the index with that in the submodule HEAD
	   when this option is used.

       -n, --summary-limit
	   This option is only valid for the summary command. Limit the
	   summary size (number of commits shown in total). Giving 0 will
	   disable the summary; a negative number means unlimited (the
	   default). This limit only applies to modified submodules. The size
	   is always limited to 1 for added/deleted/typechanged submodules.

       --remote
	   This option is only valid for the update command. Instead of using
	   the superproject’s recorded SHA-1 to update the submodule, use the
	   status of the submodule’s remote-tracking branch. The remote used
	   is branch’s remote (branch.<name>.remote), defaulting to origin.
	   The remote branch used defaults to master, but the branch name may
	   be overridden by setting the submodule.<name>.branch option in
	   either .gitmodules or .git/config (with .git/config taking
	   precedence).

	   This works for any of the supported update procedures (--checkout,
	   --rebase, etc.). The only change is the source of the target SHA-1.
	   For example, submodule update --remote --merge will merge upstream
	   submodule changes into the submodules, while submodule update
	   --merge will merge superproject gitlink changes into the
	   submodules.

	   In order to ensure a current tracking branch state, update --remote
	   fetches the submodule’s remote repository before calculating the
	   SHA-1. If you don’t want to fetch, you should use submodule update
	   --remote --no-fetch.

       -N, --no-fetch
	   This option is only valid for the update command. Don’t fetch new
	   objects from the remote site.

       --merge
	   This option is only valid for the update command. Merge the commit
	   recorded in the superproject into the current branch of the
	   submodule. If this option is given, the submodule’s HEAD will not
	   be detached. If a merge failure prevents this process, you will
	   have to resolve the resulting conflicts within the submodule with
	   the usual conflict resolution tools. If the key
	   submodule.$name.update is set to merge, this option is implicit.

       --rebase
	   This option is only valid for the update command. Rebase the
	   current branch onto the commit recorded in the superproject. If
	   this option is given, the submodule’s HEAD will not be detached. If
	   a merge failure prevents this process, you will have to resolve
	   these failures with git-rebase(1). If the key
	   submodule.$name.update is set to rebase, this option is implicit.

       --init
	   This option is only valid for the update command. Initialize all
	   submodules for which "git submodule init" has not been called so
	   far before updating.

       --name
	   This option is only valid for the add command. It sets the
	   submodule’s name to the given string instead of defaulting to its
	   path. The name must be valid as a directory name and may not end
	   with a /.

       --reference <repository>
	   This option is only valid for add and update commands. These
	   commands sometimes need to clone a remote repository. In this case,
	   this option will be passed to the git-clone(1) command.

	   NOTE: Do not use this option unless you have read the note for git-
	   clone(1)'s --reference and --shared options carefully.

       --recursive
	   This option is only valid for foreach, update and status commands.
	   Traverse submodules recursively. The operation is performed not
	   only in the submodules of the current repo, but also in any nested
	   submodules inside those submodules (and so on).

       --depth
	   This option is valid for add and update commands. Create a shallow
	   clone with a history truncated to the specified number of
	   revisions. See git-clone(1)

       <path>...
	   Paths to submodule(s). When specified this will restrict the
	   command to only operate on the submodules found at the specified
	   paths. (This argument is required with add).

FILES
       When initializing submodules, a .gitmodules file in the top-level
       directory of the containing repository is used to find the url of each
       submodule. This file should be formatted in the same way as
       $GIT_DIR/config. The key to each submodule url is
       "submodule.$name.url". See gitmodules(5) for details.

GIT
       Part of the git(1) suite

Git 1.8.5			  11/27/2013		      GIT-SUBMODULE(1)
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