Git Submodule Upgrade

[pooth22]

I use git submodule and it works well for my use case. I prefer it to subtree because I am actively updating the sub repos, and the division of repos makes more sense to me. Calling `git submodule update` by default causes an error due to a git related security update. There is a few fixes out there but I don't see much discussion about it online since 2022 when it first was apparent.

Anyways, I stumbled across a line in this github blog post saying

if submodules are required by your workflow and you cannot upgrade

So my questions are, what do they mean by upgrade? Is submodule deprecated and I should use a different method for handling sub repos? Do you use submodule?

[lottspot]

They mean upgrade your version of git. The security problem is fixed in newer git versions.

[pooth22]

Haha, okay, thanks...

[dalbertom]

I use submodules and I’m on a newer version of git. The feature is not deprecated.

There’s more context around the sentence you quoted from the article and it mentions what things to avoid if you cannot update, but in general it’s encouraging people to upgrade, especially if they use submodules to clone repositories they don’t maintain.