How to handle folder of git submodule which is marked as "untracked" in the host repo?

Question

I've got a code base in which I want to add another repo as a submodule to do some integration testing. So following a tutorial I ran

git submodule add -b master [email protected]:kramer65/whisky.git

After that, a git status gives me this:

$ git status
On branch master
Your branch is ahead of 'origin/master' by 1 commit.
  (use "git push" to publish your local commits)

Untracked files:
  (use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed)

    .gitmodules
    whisky/

nothing added to commit but untracked files present (use "git add" to track)

As you can see the .gitmodules file is new, but the whisky/ folder also appears as untracked. After this I committed the .gitmodules file, but the whisky/ folder still appears as untracked.

How should I handle this? Do I need to add the whisky/ folder also to the "host repo"? Or do I need to add it to .gitignore? Or is there another way to handle this?

Answer 1

Just rerun git submodule add <URL>.

Git will see whisky/ as a submodule and won't track its files.

You can check it through git diff --cached whisky/ (git will only see it as a particular commit)

After all, just commit it.

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