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I have a parent repository named 'A' that contain a submodule 'B' When I clone 'A' i got 'B' detached HEAD to a specific commit. My clone command is: git clone --recurse-submodules https://github....

I am trying to automate a recurring workplace scenario. I have a repo myRepo which contains a submodule mySub. I create a new branch for myRepo called myRepoBranch and also a new branch for mySub ...

How do I remove a Git submodule? Why can't I do git submodule rm module_name?

I've started playing with Git and have come across the terms "upstream" and "downstream". I've seen these before but never understood them fully. What do these terms mean in the context of SCMs (...

I ended up with a detached head today, the same problem as described in: git push says everything up-to-date even though I have local changes As far as I know I didn't do anything out of the ordinary,...

I am using Git submodules. After pulling changes from server, many times my submodule head gets detached from master branch. Why does it happen? I have to always do: git branch git checkout master ...

How would I go about adding a Git submodule for a specific tag or commit?

We are moving our (huge) project to git and we are thinking about using submodules. Our plan is to have three different heads in the superproject: release, stable, latest The project leads will ...

I have two SVN projects in use from another SVN repository using svn:externals. How can I have the same repository layout structure in Git?

I love git submodules. Also, I hate git submodules. What I love about them is how it enables to you to cleanly compartmentalize dependencies etc. I get the point of having them point to a specific ...

I am new to Git and trying to wrap my head around the way branches work. According to the documentation, git checkout: Updates files in the working tree to match the version in the index or the ...

When I clone my git repo, one of the submodules is in a branch with a strange name, which I think means it has a "detached head" (I'm not even sure what that means). If I checkout my main branch for ...

I'm having my first Git Submodule experience. I have some projects that depend on the same subproject. I keep these projects in sync, so I'm using the "submodule branch" feature (e.g. git submodule ...

guys, I just used submodule to organize some Git repos, here's the address: repos I want to move all the submodule into a new directory called repos, for examples, jquery -> repos/jquery. I change ...

I have recently created a repository. I made two branches in it, master and dev. Now when I copy files in the repositry's directory then the files are added to both the branches. But I only want to ...