gsm (Git Submodule Manager)

Easily manage git submodules using a gitsubmodule.json file.

Requirements

Requires:

To check your version of Git:

$ git --version
# git version 2.4.9 (Apple Git-60)

To check your version of Python:

$ python --version
# Python 2.7.10

Acquire gsm.py:

$ wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ericmdev/gsm/master/gsm.py -O gsm.py

Enter your git submodule dependencies in gitsubmodule.json using the format path:source, e.g:

{
  "dependencies": {
    "bin/lib/gist_example": "https://gist.github.com/my_gist.git"
  }, 
  "devDependencies": {}
}

*HTTPS is recommended by Github and preferred to SSH.

The above gitsubmodule.json tells gsm to clone the gist into our project as a git submodule in the directory bin/lib/gist_example.

All we have to do now is run gsm:

$ python gsm.py

This will execute the following command for all dependencies listed in gitsubmodule.json:

$ git submodule add [[source]] [[path]]