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submodules inside submodules?

Subject: submodules inside submodules?

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3 messages between Mar 17, 2009 and Mar 18, 2009.

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Matthias Nothhaft· Mar 18, 2009, 10:28 UTC · lore

Re: submodules inside submodules?

2009/3/18 Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>:
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> On Tuesday 17 March 2009, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
>> On Tue, 17 Mar 2009, Matthias Nothhaft wrote:
>> > can I put submodules into submodules?
>>
>> Yes.
>
> However, initializing them is a bit clunky, as Git will only init/update one
> "level" of submodules at a time. In other words, a single "git submodule
> update --init" will only intialize the first level of submodules. You will
> have to redo that command within submodules that have their own (i.e.
> nested) submodules.
Oh, thanks for that hint.

regards, Matthias

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