---
topic: submodules
source_keys:
  - git-scm-submodule-docs
---

## git-scm-submodule-docs

**Description:** Official git-scm.com reference for `git submodule` — all subcommands, flags, configuration keys, and behaviour details.

**Source:** https://git-scm.com/docs/git-submodule

- **Research doc:** plugins/git/docs/research/docs/git/submodules.md (whole-document reference — the research doc is organized by descriptive prose headings such as "Concept Overview" and "Key Commands" rather than a heading matching this slug; this key covers the entire doc, not a single section)

**Contributing files:**
- SKILL.md (all sections)
- references/setup-and-update.md (all sections)
- references/urls-and-config.md (all sections)
- references/removal.md (all sections)

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Other source keys extracted during the git plugin research phase inform sibling skills in the git workflow suite, not this one:

- `context7-git-htmldocs` — git-branches, git-history, git-remotes
- `git-scm-docs` — no current skill; it backed a git-configuration skill that no longer exists and survives here as provenance only
- `git-scm-worktree-docs` — git-worktrees
- `nvie-gitflow-post`, `atlassian-gitflow-tutorial`, `gitflow-cheatsheet` — git-branches
- `conventional-commits-spec`, `commitlint-config-conventional` — git-commits
- `git-scm-push-docs`, `git-scm-fetch-docs`, `git-scm-pull-docs`, `git-scm-remote-docs` — git-remotes
- `git-scm-bisect-docs`, `git-scm-log-docs`, `git-scm-diff-docs` — git-history