GIT extensions for interacting with submodules.

In order to use these scripts as new git subcommands, they need to be available in your PATH. You can either copy/link the scripts to ~/bin or /usr/local/bin or configure your environment to include the git-submodule-gizmos/bin directory: export PATH=$PATH:~/git-submodule-gizmos/bin

• git subcheckout -> chekout submodules on the specified branch and commit
• ...

Checks out the branch and commit of the submodule (does not leave you in a detached HEAD). Intended to simplify cloning repositories with many submodules for development.

In order to support this, the branch needs to be recorded in .gitmodules:

[submodule "some-submodule"]
	path = some-submodule
	url = git@github.com:somewhere/somerepository.git
	branch = master

The command needs to be run in the root of the main repository, recursion is not supported.

user@machine:~/some-main-repository $ git subcheckout

Optionally a single submodule can be specified as an argument.

user@machine:~/some-main-repository $ git subcheckout a_specific_submodule