I have a folder, which was a git repo. It contains some files and .gitmodules file. Now, when I do git init and then git submodule init, the latter command output is nothing. How can I help git to see submodules, defined in .gitmodules file without running git submodule add by hand again?
Update: this is my .gitmodules file:
[submodule "vim-pathogen"]
path = vim-pathogen
url = git://github.com/tpope/vim-pathogen.git
[submodule "bundle/python-mode"]
path = bundle/python-mode
url = git://github.com/klen/python-mode.git
[submodule "bundle/vim-fugitive"]
path = bundle/vim-fugitive
url = git://github.com/tpope/vim-fugitive.git
[submodule "bundle/ctrlp.vim"]
path = bundle/ctrlp.vim
url = git://github.com/kien/ctrlp.vim.git
[submodule "bundle/vim-tomorrow-theme"]
path = bundle/vim-tomorrow-theme
url = git://github.com/chriskempson/vim-tomorrow-theme.git
and here is listing of this dir:
drwxr-xr-x 4 evgeniuz 100 4096 июня 29 12:06 .
drwx------ 60 evgeniuz 100 4096 июня 29 11:43 ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 evgeniuz 100 4096 июня 29 10:03 autoload
drwxr-xr-x 7 evgeniuz 100 4096 июня 29 12:13 .git
-rw-r--r-- 1 evgeniuz 100 542 июня 29 11:45 .gitmodules
-rw-r--r-- 1 evgeniuz 100 243 июня 29 11:18 .vimrc
so, definitely, it is in top level. the git directory is not changed, only git init is done
git submodule init only considers submodules that already are in the index (i.e. "staged") for initialization. I would write a short script that parses .gitmodules, and for each url and path pair runs:
git submodule add <url> <path>
For example, you could use the following script:
#!/bin/sh
set -e
git config -f .gitmodules --get-regexp '^submodule\..*\.path$' |
while read path_key local_path
do
url_key=$(echo $path_key | sed 's/\.path/.url/')
url=$(git config -f .gitmodules --get "$url_key")
git submodule add $url $local_path
done
This is based on how the git-submodule.sh script itself parses the .gitmodules file.