将克隆的git存储库转换为子模块

Question

I have a project which is a git repository, and inside that project I have some cloned git repositories.

The directory structure is like this.

main-project
    -other_project (cloned git repository)
    -another_project (cloned git repository)

When I tried to clone main-project into another system, it only has empty directories for other_project and another_project.

I know that I should have used git submodule to add those repositories in the first place. Since I didn't, is there any way to fix the mess I've made ?

There are about 15 repositories inside (which should be submodules), so a way to "bulk convert" all those repositories into submodules would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

You would need to create a script, a bit like in " How to do a bash foreach csv field to 'git submodule add' ", except, for each nested repo, you would need to extract the upstream repo url ( git remote origin )

Then add the .gitmodules file created in your parent repo by those " submodule add " , and commit.

You will be able to clone (with --recursive option) your parent repo, and get back all those submodules.

Answer 2

You can also just do git submodule add ./path/to/subdirectory ./path/to/subdirectory , which will add the repositories as submodules, but with the incorrect origin url. You can then manually edit .git/config and replace the urls with the correct urls (ie the ones you cloned from).