我们使用Quack从另一个Git存储库中提取特定的模块。我们需要在不使用所提供的存储库的整个代码库的情况下提取代码——我们需要从庞大的存储库中获得一个非常特定的模块/文件，并且应该在每次运行update时进行更新。

所以我们是这样实现的:

创建配置

name: Project Name

modules:
  local/path:
    repository: https://github.com/<username>/<repo>.git
    path: repo/path
    branch: dev
  other/local/path/filename.txt:
    repository: https://github.com/<username>/<repo>.git
    hexsha: 9e3e9642cfea36f4ae216d27df100134920143b9
    path: repo/path/filename.txt

profiles:
  init:
    tasks: ['modules']

通过上述配置，它从第一个模块配置中指定的提供的GitHub存储库创建了一个目录，而另一个目录是从给定的存储库中提取并创建一个文件。

其他开发人员只需要运行

$ quack

它从上面的配置中提取代码。

Git 1.8.2增加了跟踪分支的可能性。

# add submodule to track branch_name branch
git submodule add -b branch_name URL_to_Git_repo optional_directory_rename

# update your submodule
git submodule update --remote 

参见Git子模块

我想在这里补充一个答案，它实际上只是其他答案的综合，但我认为它可能更完整。

有了这两个东西，就有了Git子模块。

Your .gitmodules has an entry like so: [submodule "SubmoduleTestRepo"] path = SubmoduleTestRepo url = https://github.com/jzaccone/SubmoduleTestRepo.git You have a submodule object (named SubmoduleTestRepo in this example) in your Git repository. GitHub shows these as "submodule" objects. Or do git submodule status from a command line. Git submodule objects are special kinds of Git objects, and they hold the SHA information for a specific commit. Whenever you do a git submodule update, it will populate your submodule with content from the commit. It knows where to find the commit because of the information in the .gitmodules. Now, all the -b does is add one line in your .gitmodules file. So following the same example, it would look like this: [submodule "SubmoduleTestRepo"] path = SubmoduleTestRepo url = https://github.com/jzaccone/SubmoduleTestRepo.git branch = master Note: only branch name is supported in a .gitmodules file, but SHA and TAG are not supported! (instead of that, the branch's commit of each module can be tracked and updated using "git add .", for example like git add ./SubmoduleTestRepo, and you do not need to change the .gitmodules file each time) The submodule object is still pointing at a specific commit. The only thing that the -b option buys you is the ability to add a --remote flag to your update as per Vogella's answer: git submodule update --remote Instead of populating the content of the submodule to the commit pointed to by the submodule, it replaces that commit with the latest commit on the master branch, THEN it populates the submodule with that commit. This can be done in two steps by djacobs7 answer. Since you have now updated the commit the submodule object is pointing to, you have to commit the changed submodule object into your Git repository. git submodule add -b is not some magically way to keep everything up to date with a branch. It is simply adds information about a branch in the .gitmodules file and gives you the option to update the submodule object to the latest commit of a specified branch before populating it.

一个我如何使用Git子模块的例子。

创建一个新的存储库 然后将另一个存储库克隆为子模块 然后让该子模块使用一个名为V3.1.2的标记 然后我们承诺。

它看起来有点像这样:

git init 
vi README
git add README
git commit 
git submodule add git://github.com/XXXXX/xxx.yyyy.git stm32_std_lib
git status

git submodule init
git submodule update

cd stm32_std_lib/
git reset --hard V3.1.2 
cd ..
git commit -a

git submodule status 

也许它有帮助(即使我使用标记而不是分支)?

我们使用Quack从另一个Git存储库中提取特定的模块。我们需要在不使用所提供的存储库的整个代码库的情况下提取代码——我们需要从庞大的存储库中获得一个非常特定的模块/文件，并且应该在每次运行update时进行更新。

所以我们是这样实现的:

创建配置

name: Project Name

modules:
  local/path:
    repository: https://github.com/<username>/<repo>.git
    path: repo/path
    branch: dev
  other/local/path/filename.txt:
    repository: https://github.com/<username>/<repo>.git
    hexsha: 9e3e9642cfea36f4ae216d27df100134920143b9
    path: repo/path/filename.txt

profiles:
  init:
    tasks: ['modules']

通过上述配置，它从第一个模块配置中指定的提供的GitHub存储库创建了一个目录，而另一个目录是从给定的存储库中提取并创建一个文件。

其他开发人员只需要运行

$ quack

它从上面的配置中提取代码。

我的.gitconfig文件中有这个。它仍然是一份草案，但目前证明是有用的。它帮助我总是将子模块重新连接到它们的分支。

[alias]

######################
#
# Submodules aliases
#
######################

# git sm-trackbranch: places all submodules on their respective branch specified in .gitmodules
# This works if submodules are configured to track a branch, i.e if .gitmodules looks like:
# [submodule "my-submodule"]
#   path = my-submodule
#   url = git@wherever.you.like/my-submodule.git
#   branch = my-branch
sm-trackbranch = "! git submodule foreach -q --recursive 'branch=\"$(git config -f $toplevel/.gitmodules submodule.$name.branch)\"; git checkout $branch'"

# sm-pullrebase:
# - pull --rebase on the master repo
# - sm-trackbranch on every submodule
# - pull --rebase on each submodule
#
# Important note:
# - have a clean master repo and subrepos before doing this!
# - this is *not* equivalent to getting the last committed
#   master repo + its submodules: if some submodules are tracking branches
#   that have evolved since the last commit in the master repo,
#   they will be using those more recent commits!
#
#   (Note: On the contrary, git submodule update will stick
#   to the last committed SHA1 in the master repo)
sm-pullrebase = "! git pull --rebase; git submodule update; git sm-trackbranch ; git submodule foreach 'git pull --rebase' "

# git sm-diff will diff the master repo *and* its submodules
sm-diff = "! git diff && git submodule foreach 'git diff' "

# git sm-push will ask to push also submodules
sm-push = push --recurse-submodules=on-demand

# git alias: list all aliases
# useful in order to learn git syntax
alias = "!git config -l | grep alias | cut -c 7-"