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Laszlo
Laszlo

Reputation: 801

How to update a git submodule hierarchy selectively?

I have a repository containing git submodules, such as pthread-win32. When I run git submodule update --recursive --init on Linux, all submodules are updated unconditionally; even submodule pthread-win32 is cloned unnecessarily.

I would like to clone only submodules that are needed for any specific local platform.

Is there a way to tell git which submodules to update recursively based on some condition, such as the name of the local platform?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 653

Answers (1)

Udayraj Deshmukh
Udayraj Deshmukh

Reputation: 1914

From man git submodule, You can provide the path to a specific sub-module you want to update as an argument:

git submodule update --init --recursive path/to/submodule/dir/

If the modules are few number you can use the above command multiple times. Otherwise as a workaround you can put all the selected sub-modules into one directory and use a wildcard as follows-

git submodule update --init --recursive mylocalplatform/*

Upvotes: 3

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