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Is it possible to only checkout a single branch as a submodule WITHOUT the overhead of the whole repository in my main repositories working directory? (And really only download the files of that ...

I'm setting up a new Java project on GitHub, and I'll have some Apache Commons libraries as dependencies. What are the best practices to establish that my project needs those jar files? Should I ...

I've been investigating moving from SVN to Git so that we can make use of Gitlab. One thing I'm not sure about though; Can we point multiple projects in Gitlab at a single repository? The ...

I have the following git repositories Vector Random String String relies on Vector, and adds it as a submodule. Vector submodules Random. Random has no dependencies. Module: Random Module: Vector ...

Since a while (v1.8.2), git submodule allow us to track a specific branch: git submodule add -b <tracked_branch> <added_sobmodule> That's pretty useful in a use case where you use meta-...

After I git submodule update it always checks out the same commit. for example 34561. I do git checkout master for submodule and then git submodule sync. Then it points to the latest commit a2344. ...

We have the main git repository and one single git submodule. For this question, the main repository does only have a master branch, and the submodule does have two branches - X and Y. Let's say ...

I have two submodules in my main repository, both linked to two another remote repositories. When I enter the 1st submodule I am getting a message "HEAD detached at xxxxxxxx" - which is fine, cause ...

I have made a ROS workspace and inside a package. I did catkin_make and everything is working well. I would like to give this package (or should I give the entire workspace?) to another person. I am ...

I want to pull/update the submodules at the right branch. Doing git submodule update pulls/updates the submodules but it changes to the wrong branch even when the branch I want to ALWAYS use is ...

My parent project has a couple of submodules added to it. For deployment purposes, I want to checkout a specific branch eg master, staging, etc in each submodule and pull the latest commit of this ...

I know the support for git submodules is limited in JGit, but still was wondering how can I achieve this: git submodule foreach git checkout <branchName> and similar commands using JGit. Or ...

Hard to put in a single sentence, but here is the situation. I am developing a golang package, my intention is for it to be go-gettable. The core of the package provides some "central" ...

I need to automate the following step: git clone A && cd A && (git clone B; git clone C) I cannot use submodules. I cannot use a git wrapper (already existent or by writing some ...

Sometimes I forget to push a git submodule. Is there a way to show which git submodules are ahead of origin, that have not been pushed?