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  2. RFE (Request for Enhancement)
+3

Allow to activate/deactivate multiple selected submodules

Marco Esposito 3 years ago • updated by Marc Strapetz 7 months ago • 4

When operating on a large repository with multiple submodules, it is possible to manually initialize/deactivate single submodules. However, this can be a very tedious operation, since each single repository must be selected, right clicked on, and finally inited/deactivated.

Please allow to select multiple submodules, right click, and initialize/deactivate them altogether.

Sebastien Matte 3 years ago

I would love to have this feature. I have posted a similar feature two years ago but no feedback so far from the SmartGit team:
https://smartgit.userecho.com/en/communities/1/topics/1129-log-view-open-multiple-submodules-at-once

Patrick Lehmann 2 years ago

This would help a lot.

Marco Esposito 7 months ago

For anyone still suffering from this like me, I came up with a bash script to do this instead:

modules=(
    submodule1
#   ...
)

for module in "${modules[@]}"
do
  echo "deiniting $module"
  git submodule deinit "$module"
  cat >> .git/config << EOF
[submodule "$module"]
        active = false
EOF
done


+1
Marc Strapetz 7 months ago

In 24.1 Preview you can Deactivate multiple submodules at once.

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