Adding all existing submodules to a git repo
You have a git repo (a directory) which contains sub-directories which are git repos themselves and now you want them to become submodules. Here’s a quick automatic way to add them all.
- Remove
-maxdepthif you want to recursively dig deeper than 1 level. - Assumes that each submodule has a remote named
origin, uses that remote’s url.
Preview command
for x in $(find . -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type d) ; do if [ -d "${x}/.git" ] ; then cd "${x}" ; origin="$(git config --get remote.origin.url)" ; cd - 1>/dev/null; echo git submodule add "${origin}" "${x}" ; fi ; done
Will only print the submodule commands to be executed, but NOT execute them.
Actual command
for x in $(find . -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type d) ; do if [ -d "${x}/.git" ] ; then cd "${x}" ; origin="$(git config --get remote.origin.url)" ; cd - 1>/dev/null; git submodule add "${origin}" "${x}" ; fi ; done
Will execute the actual submodule commands.
Readable versions
- Preview
for x in $(find . -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type d) ; do
if [ -d "${x}/.git" ] ;
then cd "${x}" ;
origin="$(git config --get remote.origin.url)" ;
cd - 1>/dev/null;
echo git submodule add "${origin}" "${x}" ;
fi ;
done
- Execute
for x in $(find . -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type d) ; do
if [ -d "${x}/.git" ] ;
then cd "${x}" ;
origin="$(git config --get remote.origin.url)" ;
cd - 1>/dev/null;
git submodule add "${origin}" "${x}" ;
fi ;
done
Credit (modified from an answer here):
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10606101/automatically-add-all-submodules-to-a-repo
