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NAME
       gitmodules - Defining submodule properties

SYNOPSIS
       $GIT_WORK_TREE/.gitmodules

DESCRIPTION
       The .gitmodules file, located in the top-level directory of a Git
       working tree, is a text file with a syntax matching the requirements of
       git-config(1).

       The file contains one subsection per submodule, and the subsection
       value is the name of the submodule. The name is set to the path where
       the submodule has been added unless it was customized with the --name
       option of git submodule add. Each submodule section also contains the
       following required keys:

       submodule.<name>.path
	   Defines the path, relative to the top-level directory of the Git
	   working tree, where the submodule is expected to be checked out.
	   The path name must not end with a /. All submodule paths must be
	   unique within the .gitmodules file.

       submodule.<name>.url
	   Defines a URL from which the submodule repository can be cloned.
	   This may be either an absolute URL ready to be passed to git-
	   clone(1) or (if it begins with ./ or ../) a location relative to
	   the superproject's origin repository.

       In addition, there are a number of optional keys:

       submodule.<name>.update
	   Defines the default update procedure for the named submodule, i.e.
	   how the submodule is updated by the git submodule update command in
	   the superproject. This is only used by git submodule init to
	   initialize the configuration variable of the same name. Allowed
	   values here are checkout, rebase, merge or none. See description of
	   update command in git-submodule(1) for their meaning. For security
	   reasons, the !command form is not accepted here.

       submodule.<name>.branch
	   A remote branch name for tracking updates in the upstream
	   submodule. If the option is not specified, it defaults to the
	   remote HEAD. A special value of .  is used to indicate that the
	   name of the branch in the submodule should be the same name as the
	   current branch in the current repository. See the --remote
	   documentation in git-submodule(1) for details.

       submodule.<name>.fetchRecurseSubmodules
	   This option can be used to control recursive fetching of this
	   submodule. If this option is also present in the submodule's entry
	   in .git/config of the superproject, the setting there will override
	   the one found in .gitmodules. Both settings can be overridden on
	   the command line by using the --[no-]recurse-submodules option to
	   git fetch and git pull.

       submodule.<name>.ignore
	   Defines under what circumstances git status and the diff family
	   show a submodule as modified. The following values are supported:

	   all
	       The submodule will never be considered modified (but will
	       nonetheless show up in the output of status and commit when it
	       has been staged).

	   dirty
	       All changes to the submodule's work tree will be ignored, only
	       committed differences between the HEAD of the submodule and its
	       recorded state in the superproject are taken into account.

	   untracked
	       Only untracked files in submodules will be ignored. Committed
	       differences and modifications to tracked files will show up.

	   none
	       No modifications to submodules are ignored, all of committed
	       differences, and modifications to tracked and untracked files
	       are shown. This is the default option.

	   If this option is also present in the submodule's entry in
	   .git/config of the superproject, the setting there will override
	   the one found in .gitmodules.

	   Both settings can be overridden on the command line by using the
	   --ignore-submodules option. The git submodule commands are not
	   affected by this setting.

       submodule.<name>.shallow
	   When set to true, a clone of this submodule will be performed as a
	   shallow clone (with a history depth of 1) unless the user
	   explicitly asks for a non-shallow clone.

NOTES
       Git does not allow the .gitmodules file within a working tree to be a
       symbolic link, and will refuse to check out such a tree entry. This
       keeps behavior consistent when the file is accessed from the index or a
       tree versus from the filesystem, and helps Git reliably enforce
       security checks of the file contents.

EXAMPLES
       Consider the following .gitmodules file:

	   [submodule "libfoo"]
		   path = include/foo
		   url = git://foo.com/git/lib.git

	   [submodule "libbar"]
		   path = include/bar
		   url = git://bar.com/git/lib.git


       This defines two submodules, libfoo and libbar. These are expected to
       be checked out in the paths include/foo and include/bar, and for both
       submodules a URL is specified which can be used for cloning the
       submodules.

SEE ALSO
       git-submodule(1), gitsubmodules(7), git-config(1)

GIT
       Part of the git(1) suite



Git 2.38.4			  05/16/2024			 GITMODULES(5)