Friday·10·June·2011
How to move a git submodule //at 20:31 //by abe
from the git-rules-and-still-can-be-improved dept.
If you try to move a git submodule with git mv, you’ll
get the following error message:
$ git mv old/submodule new/submodule fatal: source directory is empty, source=old/submodule, destination=new/submodule
There’s a patch against git to supoort submodule moving, but it doesn’t seem to be applied yet, at least not in the version which is currently in Debian Sid.
What worked for me to solve this issue was the following (as posted on StackOverflow):
- Edit .gitmodules and change the path of the submodule
appropriately, and put it in the index with
git add .gitmodules. - If needed, create the parent directory of the new location of the
submodule:
mkdir new. - Move all content from the old to the new directory:
mv -vi old/submodule new/submodule. - Remove the old directory with
git rm --cached old/submodule.
Looked like this for me afterwards:
# On branch master # Changes to be committed: # (use "git reset HEAD <file>..." to unstage) # # modified: .gitmodules # renamed: var/lib/dokuwiki/tpl -> var/lib/dokuwiki/lib/tpl #
Finally commit the changes. HTH.
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Re: How to move a git submodule
Posted by: Stanley Pilton Website: mailto:stanley.pilton@gmail.com Time: Fri, 18 Nov 2011 18:47 Thanks, useful. With version 1.7.2.5 of git, I also had to do a step 5: "git add new/submodule".
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