Swap git submodule with own fork
The submodules are stored in .gitmodules
:
$ cat .gitmodules[submodule "ext/google-maps"] path = ext/google-maps url = git://git.naquadah.org/google-maps.git
If you edit the url
with a text editor, you need to run the following:
$ git submodule sync
This updates .git/config
which contains a copy of this submodule list (you could also just edit the relevant [submodule]
section of .git/config
manually)
There might be a way to do it with only git
commands, although the submodule
system seems a bit incomplete (e.g see the instructions to remove a submodule)
I don’t know how long it is true, but certainly even in rather old git 1.8 submodules have remotes. So, you can do
cd some-library # this is entering the submodulegit remote -v # just to see what you have; I guess origin onlygit remote add myrepo git-URL-of-the-forkgit checkout -b my_new_ideagit push -u myrepo my_new_idea
Now the submodule work with your fork instead of the original repo. You can do normal push, pull, rebase
etc. When your pull request is merged, you can remove the remote with normal git remote remove myrepo
. Of course, all other caveats about working with submodules apply (e.g., you have to commit the change of the submodule as a new commit in the supermodule).