Adding git submodule into the root of the repository?

Question

I want to keep my Vim plugins up-to-date with git by using github repos as submodules with the help of pathogen . Everything is well except pathogen itself.

For example, I have a repository in ~/.vim , at pathogen's repo has autoload directory in its root: <pathogen repo>/autoload .

Is it possible to make a git submodule so that pathogen's autoload goes into ~/.vim ?

~/.vim/autoload/pathogen.vim

Answer 1

Clone the submodule into a subdirectory and symlink it's contents.

For pathogen, I also explicitly blacklisted itself (in the bundle directory) to prevent it from self-sourcing.

Answer 2

You can't have a submodule at the root of your repository because both .git folder would conflicts.

You must create your submodule in a subfolder.