Automated Dependency Updates for Git Submodules
Renovate supports updating Git Submodules dependencies.
Enabling¶
Git Submodules functionality is currently in beta testing, so you must opt-in to test it. To enable it, add a configuration like this to either your bot config or your renovate.json:
{
"git-submodules": {
"enabled": true
}
}
If you find any bugs, please create a new discussion first. If you find that it works well, then let us know too.
File Matching¶
By default, Renovate will check any files matching the following regular expression: (^|/)\.gitmodules$.
For details on how to extend a manager's fileMatch value, please follow this link.
Supported datasources¶
This manager supports extracting the following datasources: git-refs.
References## Default config¶
{
"enabled": false,
"versioning": "git",
"fileMatch": [
"(^|/)\\.gitmodules$"
]
}
Additional Information¶
Keeps publicly accessible Git submodules updated within a repository.
Renovate does not support updating Git submodules that are hosted on a private repository. Subscribe to issue #10149 on GitHub to keep track of our progress towards supporting private Git submodules.
You can customize the per-submodule checks of the git-submodules manager like this:
{
"ignoreDeps": ["path/to/submodule", "path/to/submodule2"],
"git-submodules": {
"enabled": true
}
}
Open items¶
The below list of features and bugs were current when this page was generated on March 30, 2023.
Feature requests¶
- Update git-submodules only to latest tag #10234
- Private git-submodules support #10149
- changelog for git submodules #7776
- Only update dependency if the status of its new commit is green #6079