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Support git submodules

See original GitHub issue

This issue tracks adding support for projects with git submodules to west.

The overall goal is to clone and update submodules on west update in addition to the projects that contain them.

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Created 4 years ago
Comments:5 (2 by maintainers)

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mbolivar-nordiccommented, Dec 1, 2020

I think I would prefer to start with a submodules: true (which defaults to false) to update the submodules as well with git submodule update or so, before we go crazy with allow or blocklists.

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tejlmandcommented, Jan 11, 2021

I think I would prefer to start with a submodules: true (which defaults to false) to update the submodules as well with git submodule update or so, before we go crazy with allow or blocklists.

There is already a use-case where west is used to clone a single repo, which also happens to be a one submodule out of two. https://github.com/nrfconnect/sdk-nrf/blob/master/west.yml#L107-L114

    - name: cmock
      path: test/cmock
      revision: c243b9a7a7b3c471023193992b46cf1bd1910450
      remote: throwtheswitch
    - name: unity
      path: test/cmock/vendor/unity
      revision: 031f3bbe45f8adf504ca3d13e6f093869920b091
      remote: throwtheswitch

where the cmock repo actually contains two submodules: