Why there's no submodule directories when I clone git project with submodule?

Question

When you receive such a project, you get the directories that contain submodules, but none of the files yet

I clone it with --recursive flag and git submodule init in it (?)

$ git clone --recursive git://path/to/repo.git
$ git submodule init
$ git submodule update

But I don't even get the directories. The .gitmodule file is there.

.gitmodule content:

[submodule "Alamofire"]
path = Alamofire
url = https://github.com/Alamofire/Alamofire.git

I use git version 2.11.0

Did you do a [recursive git clone](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3796927/how-to-git-clone-including-submodules) ? — Tim Biegeleisen, Nov 03 '17 at 06:51
Its not automagic. If the project has submodule and your cloning for the first time then you need to do `git submodule init`. Check out the head of submodule after the init. — danglingpointer, Nov 03 '17 at 08:56
Ok, it's silly thing. I think my workmate didn't add the folder into git. — Seto, Nov 07 '17 at 03:28

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 30 '17 at 10:01

Ok, it's silly thing. My workmate seemed forget to add the submodule directory into git. The directory should add to the git.

Although DbConnector is a subdirectory in your working directory, Git sees it as a submodule and doesn’t track its contents when you’re not in that directory. Instead, Git sees it as a particular commit from that repository.

Documentation

Why there's no submodule directories when I clone git project with submodule?

1 Answers1