Git Workflow With Submodules

This quick and raw post describes the typical workflow of using Git with submodules...





When a submodule is updated within the scope of the same project (and you want the latest submodule changes)

• git pull (in the root)
• git submodule update (in the root)

When a submodule is updated in the scope of another project (and you want those changes in another project which references the submodule)

• git checkout branchname (in the submodule directory)
• git pull origin branchname (in the submodule directory)
• git add -A (in the root)
• git commit (in the root)