I am reorganizing my dotfiles and have the following directory structure:
dotfiles
├── .vim
│ ├── colors/
│ ├── ftplugin/
│ ├── pack/
│ │ └── my_plugins/
│ │ ├── opt/
│ │ │ ├── nerdtree/
│ │ │ │ ├── .git
│ │ │ └── vimwiki/
│ │ │ ├── .git
│ │ └── start/
│ │ ├── fugitive/
│ │ │ ├── .git
│ │ ├── syntastic/
│ │ │ ├── .git
│ │ ├── vimade/
│ │ │ ├── .git
│ │ └── vim-css-color/
│ │ ├── .git
│ ├── README.md
│ └── vimrc
There are six directories which are github repos and that have already been cloned to their directories.
I want to now make the entire dotfiles directory version controlled.
How do I add the six .../.git repos as submodules to the top level repo, without having to re-clone the packages.
Note that here, a similar question was asked, but the instructions given are unclear. What I need is the step-by-step solution to add the entire .vim directory to the top-level repo.
Here's a step by step process :
# dotfiles directory is current directory
git init
# Add already cloned repos
git submodule add <github-repo1-link> <path-to-already-cloned-repo1>
git submodule add <github-repo2-link> <path-to-already-cloned-repo2>
.
.
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# Add other files for staging
git add .
# Commit the changes
git commit
As mentioned in git docs for submodules here, the add command of submodule takes path as an optional argument.
git submodule add <repository> [<path>]
The optional argument
<path>is the relative location for the cloned submodule to exist in the superproject. If<path>is not given, the canonical part of the source repository is used ("repo" for "/path/to/repo.git" and "foo" for "host.xz:foo/.git"). If<path>exists and is already a valid Git repository, then it is staged for commit without cloning. The<path>is also used as the submodule’s logical name in its configuration entries unless --name is used to specify a logical name.