Question: Is there a way to use lint-staged with git submodules?

We have a folder that is shared between some of our project. We have made it into its own git repo and added it as a submodule to the projects. The configurations of the project are always in sync (or they should be), and we treat the submodule as a simple folder.

The problem is that lint-staged won’t report the changed files inside the submodule to our code formatter. This has made us run a full reformat of the whole code base on each commit.

Is there a work around this?

[Shayan-To]

Okay, it seems like that thanks to your guidance, I have found a solution to my problem. I can run this:

npx lint-staged && git submodule foreach --recursive npx lint-staged

[Shayan-To]

Just a slightly unrelated question. I have tried to put this into an npm script, but as I am running Windows, I got this error:

D:/Program_Files/Git/mingw64/libexec/git-core\git-submodule: line 22: .: git-sh-setup: file not found
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! delijan@0.1.0 format:staged: `lint-staged && git submodule foreach --recursive npx lint-staged`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the delijan@0.1.0 format:staged script.
npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     C:\Users\Shayan\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache\_logs\2020-07-01T19_09_40_482Z-debug.log
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! delijan@0.1.0 format: `git add --all && npm run format:staged && git reset -q`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the delijan@0.1.0 format script.
npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     C:\Users\Shayan\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache\_logs\2020-07-01T19_09_40_512Z-debug.log

Have you got any experience with this? (I think that the problem is probably that git scripts are written in bash, and npm on windows works in cmd environment.)