How to keep up to date the repo. Keep in mind that the submodules point to a specific commit hash, not to a branch. You can set the branch you want to follow, but it will just point to the most recent commit (After running the following commands).
git pull
git submodule update --recursive --remote --progressAn alternative of the above commands is the following. This uses the git submodule foreach command to execute a bash command on each checked out
submodule. For more info on this command read the following docs.
For this command to work the submodule needs to be configured to track a
branch.
git pull
git submodule foreach -q --recursive 'echo -e "\e[1mUpdating submodule \"$name\"\e[0m"; branch=$(git config -f $toplevel/.gitmodules submodule.$name.branch); git switch $branch; git pull; echo ""'In case you don't want to write/copy this command every time you can add the
following alias to your .bashrc file, where gsu is the name of the alias
(you can the name change it to whatever you want, just check that it's not a
command or that it's not an other alias name):
alias gsu=$'git submodule foreach -q --recursive \'echo -e "\e[1mUpdating submodule \"$name\"\e[0m"; branch=$(git config -f $toplevel/.gitmodules submodule.$name.branch); git switch $branch; git pull; echo ""\''An other options is to add a git alias. To do so, just execute the following command:
git config --global alias.sm-update $'submodule foreach -q --recursive \'echo -e "\e[1mUpdating submodule \"$name\"\e[0m"; branch=$(git config -f $toplevel/.gitmodules submodule.$name.branch); git switch $branch; git pull; echo ""\''