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.
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.
--init is used does not match my experiences on Git 2.2.2. I see both top-level and nested submodules that have already been initialized getting the correct commit checked out when I use git submodule update --init --recursive, and I think the claim that you need to run the command with and without --init is simply wrong. Unless somebody can either show evidence that this is the behaviour or demonstrate that it's changed between versions and was once true, I plan to edit it out altogether.
Commented
Feb 24, 2015 at 14:06
The way I use is:
git submodule update --init --recursive
git submodule foreach --recursive git fetch
git submodule foreach git merge origin master
git submodule foreach git pull --ff-only origin master
Commented
Oct 23, 2014 at 7:43
git submodule foreach --recursive 'git commit -a | :'. The : makes it loop regardless of result. See linkstackoverflow.com/questions/19728933/….
Commented
May 23, 2017 at 2:10
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'
Entering 'Core' fatal: ambiguous argument 'origin/HEAD': unknown revision or path not in the working tree. where Core is the submodule
Commented
May 3, 2017 at 13:01
reset --hard and clean -dfx.
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'
git submodule update --remote my-dir/my-submodule works just as well
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.
I had one submodule causing issues (the 'fatal:...' that Sanandrea reported, above). Navigated to the submodule and used 'git clean -dfx' resolved it.
