Add a Submodule (Challenge)

Introduction

Submodules are a way to include one Git repository as a subdirectory of another Git repository. This can be useful when you want to include a third-party library or a shared codebase in your project. In this challenge, you will learn how to add a submodule to a Git repository.

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Add a Submodule

Your task is to add a new submodule to a Git repository. You will need to add the submodule from an upstream repository to a local directory in your repository.

Tasks

Suppose you have a Git repository called my-project and you want to add a submodule from the Git repository https://github.com/labex-labs/git-playground.git to a directory named git-playground in your local repository.

This is the result after completing the challenge:

Summary

Adding a submodule to a Git repository can be useful when you want to include a third-party library or a shared codebase in your project. In this challenge, you learned how to use the git submodule add command to add a new submodule to a Git repository. Remember to specify the upstream repository URL or path and the local directory where you want to store the submodule.