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complez
complez

Reputation: 8312

Git update submodules recursively

My project struture

ProjectA
-FrameworkA (submodule)
--Twig (submodule of FrameworkA)

How I can update submodules recursively? I already tried some git commands (on ProjectA root)

git submodule foreach git pull origin master

or

git submodule foreach --recursive git pull origin master

but cannot pull files of Twig.

Upvotes: 440

Views: 648754

Answers (7)

Stefano Favero
Stefano Favero

Reputation: 427

How about

git config --global submodule.recurse true

and forget it?

See the git book documentation.

Upvotes: 15

Duane Rosengartner
Duane Rosengartner

Reputation: 1

I had one submodule causing issues (the 'fatal:...' that Sanandrea reported, above). Navigated to the submodule and used 'git clean -dfx' resolved it.

Upvotes: 0

Shubham Chaudhary
Shubham Chaudhary

Reputation: 50963

You can add the following to your Makefile:

submodule:
    git submodule update --init --recursive
    git submodule foreach 'git fetch origin; git checkout $$(git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD); git reset --hard origin/$$(git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD); git submodule update --recursive; git clean -dfx'

Then you can simple run make submodule everytime you want to update submodules.

Upvotes: 5

drewag
drewag

Reputation: 94683

git submodule update --recursive

You will also probably want to use the --init option which will make it initialize any uninitialized submodules:

git submodule update --init --recursive

Note: in some older versions of Git, if you use the --init option, already-initialized submodules may not be updated. In that case, you should also run the command without --init option.

Upvotes: 947

mrts
mrts

Reputation: 18925

In recent Git (I'm using v2.15.1), the following will merge upstream submodule changes into the submodules recursively:

git submodule update --recursive --remote --merge

You may add --init to initialize any uninitialized submodules and use --rebase if you want to rebase instead of merge.

You need to commit the changes afterwards:

git add . && git commit -m 'Update submodules to latest revisions'

Upvotes: 27

Sebastien Varrette
Sebastien Varrette

Reputation: 3916

As it may happens that the default branch of your submodules are not master (which happens a lot in my case), this is how I automate the full Git submodules upgrades:

git submodule init
git submodule update
git submodule foreach 'git fetch origin; git checkout $(git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD); git reset --hard origin/$(git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD); git submodule update --recursive; git clean -dfx'

Upvotes: 27

William Entriken
William Entriken

Reputation: 39243

The way I use is:

git submodule update --init --recursive
git submodule foreach --recursive git fetch
git submodule foreach git merge origin master

Upvotes: 61

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