Update Submodules with Git
Git submodules seem to confuse people and I can probably count myself in that group of people that are confused. Their code is kind of part of the codebase, kind of isn't. Pulling the latest code from the overall project doesn't pull the updated submodule code, so sometimes you get errors and don't know what's going on. To ensure your submodules are always up to date, run this via the command line:
git submodule update --init --recursive
This command ensure your existing submodules are current as well as adds new submodule code whenever appropriate. I like to run this at least once a day just to make sure my code is always up to date. You never know what some of your collaborators have contributed (if you work in a team setting), so running this daily is useful!
![9 Mind-Blowing Canvas Demos]()
The <canvas> element has been a revelation for the visual experts among our ranks. Canvas provides the means for incredible and efficient animations with the added bonus of no Flash; these developers can flash their awesome JavaScript skills instead. Here are nine unbelievable canvas demos that...
![39 Shirts – Leaving Mozilla]()
In 2001 I had just graduated from a small town high school and headed off to a small town college. I found myself in the quaint computer lab where the substandard computers featured two browsers: Internet Explorer and Mozilla. It was this lab where I fell...
![Animated AJAX Record Deletion Using MooTools]()
I'm a huge fan of WordPress' method of individual article deletion. You click the delete link, the menu item animates red, and the item disappears. Here's how to achieve that functionality with MooTools JavaScript.
The PHP - Content & Header
The following snippet goes at the...
![Image Manipulation with PHP and the GD Library]()
Yeah, I'm a Photoshop wizard. I rock the selection tool. I crop like a farmer. I dominate the bucket tool. Hell, I even went as far as wielding the wizard wand selection tool once.
...OK I'm rubbish when it comes to Photoshop.
While this is definitely a useful command, it’s worth noting that updating your submodules basically just checks out the revision as defined in the repository. If you’re maintaining a project that uses submodules, this won’t get the latest code for that submodule, so much as it just ensures that the submodule is on the commit as defined.
For example, I maintain all of my dotfiles in a Git repository, which includes several submodules (Vim plugins, mostly). This command doesn’t actually update the submodules to the latest revision on their branch. If I want to go into each submodule and pull the latest code for each (which can be horribly risky, caveat emptor), I can do something like this:
git submodule foreach ‘git checkout master && git pull origin master’
That will go through each of my submodules, ensuring that they are on the latest master branch. That may not be the desired or best behavior, but it is something I learned about with regards to `git submodule update`.
Hi!
I’m very interested in git’s submodules but I can’t find a tutorial that I can understand properly
Could you address this? (or at least point me to your reference tutorial)
Thanks a lot!
Why not create a Git hook for this?
You could use post-checkout & post-merge to automatically fire this on every branch checkout or pull, respectively.