--------
[verse]
'git submodule' [--quiet] add [-b branch]
- [--reference <repository>] [--] <repository> <path>
-'git submodule' [--quiet] status [--cached] [--] [<path>...]
+ [--reference <repository>] [--] <repository> [<path>]
+'git submodule' [--quiet] status [--cached] [--
recursive] [--] [<path>...]
'git submodule' [--quiet] init [--] [<path>...]
'git submodule' [--quiet] update [--init] [-N|--no-fetch] [--rebase]
- [--reference <repository>] [--merge] [--] [<path>...]
+ [--reference <repository>] [--merge] [--
recursive] [--] [<path>...]
'git submodule' [--quiet] summary [--cached|--files] [--summary-limit <n>] [commit] [--] [<path>...]
-'git submodule' [--quiet] foreach <command>
+'git submodule' [--quiet] foreach [--recursive] <command>
'git submodule' [--quiet] sync [--] [<path>...]
to the changeset to be committed next to the current
project: the current project is termed the "superproject".
+
-This requires two arguments: <repository> and <path>.
+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").
+
<repository> is the URL of the new submodule's origin repository.
This may be either an absolute URL, or (if it begins with ./
initialized and `+` if the currently checked out submodule commit
does not match the SHA-1 found in the index of the containing
repository. This command is the default command for 'git-submodule'.
++
+If '--recursive' is specified, this command will recurse into nested
+submodules, and show their status as well.
init::
Initialize the submodules, i.e. register each submodule name
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.
summary::
Show commit summary between the given commit (defaults to HEAD) and
foreach::
Evaluates an arbitrary shell command in each checked out submodule.
- The command has access to the variables $path and $sha1:
+ The command has access to the variables $name, $path and $sha1:
+ $name is the name of the relevant submodule section in .gitmodules,
$path is the name of the submodule directory relative to the
superproject, and $sha1 is the commit as recorded in 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.
*NOTE*: Do *not* use this option unless you have read the note
for linkgit: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).
+
<path>...::
Paths to submodule(s). When specified this will restrict the command
to only operate on the submodules found at the specified paths.