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Evandro Coan
Evandro Coan

Reputation: 9418

How to clone a git repository with its submodules checkout on their default branches?

On the question:

  1. How to correctly call a git submodule symlinked?

Was figured it out it is necessary to checkout the git submodules to their default branch when a git clone --recursive is performed, but how to do that?

I tried searching and found this other question:

  1. Easy way pull latest of all submodules

Suggesting to use the command git clone --recurse-submodules but after cloning the repository its submodule still not checkout on their default branches.

Upvotes: -1

Views: 363

Answers (3)

Max Barrass
Max Barrass

Reputation: 3212

  1. First clone repo with submodules first:

git clone --recursive --branch develop https://github.com/aem-design/aemdesign-parent.git

  1. Then force all submodules to the default branch:

git submodule foreach -q --recursive 'branch="$( git symbolic-ref refs/remotes/origin/HEAD --short | grep -oE "[^/]+$")"; git checkout $branch'

Upvotes: 1

8bittree
8bittree

Reputation: 1799

You can use git submodule foreach to run an arbitrary command in each submodule. The --recursive flag will recurse through the submodules' submodules. git remote show [name-of-remote] will say which branch [name-of-remote] currently has active. Combining them with a few other tools to clean up git remote show's output gives:

git submodule foreach --recursive "git checkout $(git remote show origin | grep 'HEAD branch' | sed 's/.*: //')"

This is, of course, dependent on already having cloned the submodules.

Upvotes: 2

phd
phd

Reputation: 94417

git submodule foreach git checkout master

Upvotes: 1

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