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Roland Y.
Roland Y.

Reputation: 423

Working with submodules within submodules

I am experiencing some troubles managing some repositories on Github. I am actiually mainting a pathfinding library. The master repo is here: Jumper.This repo connected to 2 others, included as submodules (30log and Binary-Heaps).

When I attempt to clone the master repo (Jumper), using --recursive as an option, it works fine.

But, when I want to include this master repo as a submodule in another one, let's call it SuperMaster repo, and then I attempt to clone SuperMaster repo, still using --recursive, it succeeds to clone the repo Jumper, but fails to register its submodules (30log and Binary-Heaps), saying something like:

Failed to recurse into submodule path 
fatal: not a git repository: ../../../../c:/Users/... etc

I dug a bit, and I found some people have encountered something similar (here and here) but noone of the solutions proposed seems to work with me.

Upvotes: 4

Views: 5900

Answers (1)

Adam Dymitruk
Adam Dymitruk

Reputation: 129526

You shouldn't have to cd into lib/Jumper. Call git submodule update --init --recursive from the root of the top level repo. Submodule commands can only be executed from root of dir of a repo. Also, if you are using local urls, submodules have problems with relative paths. The error that you are getting may imply that you are using a local file path instead of a url. But most likely it's that you are not calling the submodule command from what is a root level in a repo.

Upvotes: 3

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