If I am entering into undefined behavior territory with the renaming then there might not be any point to pursue this further, but in any case, script below: Apologies up-front for the verbosity, there are probably a lot of unnecessary steps and git shortcuts missed - I just wanted it to exactly match my scenario. Note that it is divided into two parts as it requires you to edit .gitmodules. Part 1: cd ~/ # Make sub repos and add a commit to each mkdir super && cd super mkdir sub1 && mkdir sub2 cd sub1 git init && touch first && git add . && git commit -m "first" cd ../sub2 git init && touch first && git add . && git commit -m "first" cd .. # Make super repo, add subrepos, and commit git init git submodule add ./sub1 git submodule add ./sub2 git add . git commit -m "first" # Edit .gitmodules, change sub2 name and path to sub2_newname: # $ cat .gitmodules # [submodule "sub1"] # path = sub1 # url = ./sub1 # [submodule "sub2_newname"] # path = sub2 # url = ./sub2_newname Part 2: cd ~/ # Sync submodule after we edited .gitmodules cd super git submodule sync # Commit in subrepos and commit this to superrepo cd sub1 touch second && git add . && git commit -m "second" cd ../sub2 touch second && git add . && git commit -m "second" cd .. git add . git commit -m "second" # Commit in subrepos and commit this to superrepo cd sub1 touch third && git add . && git commit -m "third" cd ../sub2 touch third && git add . && git commit -m "third" cd .. git add . git commit -m "third" git checkout HEAD^ git status git submodule update git status # Observe only sub1 repo was updated On 20 December 2017 at 18:54, Stefan Beller <sbeller@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 20, 2017 at 12:22 AM, Andreas Urke <arurke@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Thanks for looking into this. >> >> I was able to reproduce it from scratch, but I followed my earlier >> workflow where I first created the subrepos, and then later renamed >> it. At the time I was not able to find any command to rename without >> changing the path (and I was not able find one now either, is there >> any?), so I edited name and path in .gitmodules and ran git submodule >> sync. Am I asking for trouble doing it that way? > > "rename without changing the path" sounds like a red flag to me, > as the submodule name was introduced specifically to be a constant > as the path may change, whereas the name ought to never change. > > > > >> >> Let me know if you need the exact steps I followed. > > Well yes, ideally as a shell script (or even embedded into our test suite).
