Git Submodules. Pulling into a new clone of the super-project

Question

OK. So I thought I had this licked ... but now ....

I have a project which includes one small library from GitHub as a submodule. In the original version of that super-p

Answer 1

I had this problem (flaky network so I got dropped submodule checkout like this) and I solved it by making this script (named it git-submodule-fix so I could run it as git submodule-fix)

#!/bin/bash 

for arg 
do 
  echo $arg 
  find . -name "`basename $arg`" | grep "$arg\$" | xargs rm -fr
done

If you get this i.e. from a git submodule update

fatal: Needed a single revision
Unable to find current revision in submodule path 'some/submodule/path'

do

git submodule-fix some/submodule/path
git submodule update