I have a git repository with submodules in the directory projects/myRepo
and I want to rename the directory to projects/my-repo
.
According to this question it can simply be done with mv
. But in a repo with submodules git keeps telling me
fatal: Not a git repository: projects/myRepo/.git/path/to/submodule```
even for git status
.
Submodule config:
[submodule "path/to/submodule"]
path = path/to/submodule
url = https://github.com/user/projectName.git
Somehow the 'internal path' for the submodule does not get updated?! Is there a way to tell git to update these submodule paths?
Unfortunately, like removing submodules, Git does not make it clear how to update a submodule to a later commit. Fortunately though, it's not that tough. Initialize the repository's submodules by running git submodule init followed by git submodule update . Change into the submodule's directory.
The subdirectory in a directory or Github repo inside another repository like using another project from within it is termed as a Submodule. Like when you are working in a repo and you want it to use at one of your parent repositories. You only add information about the submodule that is added to the main repository.
In order to add a Git submodule, use the “git submodule add” command and specify the URL of the Git remote repository to be included as a submodule. When adding a Git submodule, your submodule will be staged. As a consequence, you will need to commit your submodule by using the “git commit” command.
Today I had the same problem to rename the submodule and finally I fixed it by using the following steps:
Assume the old module name is old/module
and the new one is new/module/path
repo_root
), mv old/module new/module/path
.git/modules
mv old/module new/module/path
(create the folder first if necessary)new/module/name/config
: update the worktree
entry. It should be the relative path from this config file to repo_root/new/module/path
repo_root
and edit new/module/path/.git
, change the gitdir
to the relative path from this file to repo_root/.git/modules/new/module/path
.git/config
of the master repo: find the line containing [submodule "old/module"]
and update to [submodule "new/module/path"]
I also had the same error after changing my project directory. I have an iOS 6 XCode 4 project but that shouldn't matter.
For each submodule, you need to change the absolute path that it thinks it's in. The path is set in the .git file for that submodule. .git in a submodule is a file as opposed to a directory in a standard git directory.
For each submodule, change the .gitdir line in the .git file. Here is an example from my project:
File: /path/to/project/submodules/RestKit/.git
Before gitdir: /path/to/project//.git/modules/submodules/RestKit
After gitdir: /path/to/project//.git/modules/submodules/RestKit
I did experience exactly the same behavior. I managed to fix it by deleting directories with submodules, recreating them as empty directories with the right name and then running git submodule update --init
to reinitialize them. All fixed now. Probably some permission problems (I retrieved those directories from backup earlier and permissions on them are sometimes strange).
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