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Git hook to call `git submodule update` automatically.
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post-rewrite
#!/bin/sh
echo "[post-rewrite hook: $1]"
# quick script to call "git submodule update" automatically if the
# .gitmodules file is changed
changedfiles=( `git diff-tree --no-commit-id --name-only HEAD@{1} HEAD` )
if [[ "${changedfiles[*]}" =~ ".gitmodules" ]]; then
echo "initializing & updating submodule(s)"
git submodule update --init --recursive
fi
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Triggered if the .gitmodules file is modified by changes being incorporated from a remote repository into the current branch (via git pull and thus git merge, or git rebase). This file should be named "post-rewrite", marked executable, and placed in .git/hooks/ within a local Git clone.

Note: could be modified [with a few edits] to be combined with https://gist.github.com/digitaljhelms/7901283

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fitzage commented Oct 5, 2017

I'm not sure why, but (three years later) I tried to implement this as a post-rewrite hook and it didn't work. It does work fine as post-merge, though. Git version issue maybe?

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