git submodule support is not recursive

[skizz]

It is common for projects in the iOS world to have recursive submodules. For a prominent example of this see ShareKit.

So it is not enough to do "git pull && git submodule init && git submodule update".

We should actually do something like:

• git submodule init && git submodule update
• for each submodule :
  • git submodule init && git submodule update

recursively.

[srushti]

Any ideas on Git commands we could use to do this? Basically, what do you run on your dev machines to get all submodules up-to-date?

[skizz]

Here's what I do:

task :checkout_submodules_hack do
  FileUtils.cd('Cali/Frameworks/ShareKit') do
    puts `pwd`
    `git submodule init && git submodule update`
  end
end 

There's no single command in git that will do this. You need to parse the git log and run it recursively in every directory.

[srushti]

@skizz Could you confirm the fix in 7b0bc34 works? It worked like this for me https://gist.github.com/2021967.

[skizz]

I'll try and check today

Thanks

Chris Stevenson - http://955dreams.com Twitter: @chris_stevenson

On Mar 13, 2012, at 23:21, Srushtireply@reply.github.com wrote:

@skizz Could you confirm the fix in 7b0bc34 works? It worked like this for me https://gist.github.com/2021967.

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[srushti]

I'm going to assume it's working. Please reopen this issue if the problem still exists.