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holocron/plugins/git/.apm/skills/git-submodules/references/submodules.md
Defame1297 5e232503c4 feat(kyberforge): execute plugin-to-apm marketplace conversion
Why:
ADR-0015 established that Microsoft APM (apm.yml + .apm/) should replace
this repo's hand-authored plugin.json/marketplace.json model, with those
files becoming compiled output of `apm pack` instead of files edited by
hand via the (now-retired) plugin-author/marketplace-author skills.
Issue #90 was the deferred execution of that decision, gated on #88
(apm tooling) and #89 (apm-native agent-author/skill-author routing).

Implementation notes:
- All six plugins (bin, core, git, gitea, kyberforge, lint) now carry
  apm.yml + .apm/{skills,agents,hooks} as their authoring source. Skills
  moved with a plain git mv (content-identical across targets). Agents
  were re-authored, not moved: per ADR-0016, .apm/agents/*.agent.md
  compiles verbatim to both Claude and Copilot, so plugin-scope agents
  now carry only name/description/model/source_keys -- no tools: field,
  no Claude-only knobs (isolation, maxTurns, effort, memory,
  permissionMode).
- Root apm.yml registers all 7 marketplace packages (6 local plus
  mattpocock-skills as a remote entry) under versioning: per_package,
  matching this repo's existing independent-plugin-versioning practice.
- .claude-plugin/marketplace.json and every plugin's plugin.json are now
  apm-pack-compiled output, verified against the prior hand-maintained
  content: same names/descriptions/versions/licenses/authors, only
  cosmetic serialization differences (JSON key order, owner email vs.
  url, Unicode escaping).
- plugin-author and marketplace-author are retired now that apm-based
  authoring fully replaces their job; kyberforge bumped 1.3.1 -> 1.4.0
  for that removal, and the root marketplace catalog bumped
  0.3.1 -> 0.3.2 to match, per the version-bump convention now
  documented in apm-workflow's reference docs instead of a dedicated
  script (apm has no native version-bump automation).
- Fixed hardcoded pre-.apm/ path assumptions across
  .pre-commit-config.yaml, .pre-commit-hooks.yaml,
  scripts/check-scope-walkup-sync.sh, scripts/sync-vale-styles.sh,
  scripts/check-vale-style-sync.sh, six plugins' root plugin.json
  (stale skills/hooks/agents pointer fields that check-manifests.sh
  validates), and several tests/*.bats and tests/*.sh fixtures --
  including a bats REPO_ROOT relative-path depth bug (10 files, one
  extra .apm/ directory level to walk up) and a vale probe-path
  isolation regression introduced mid-fix.
- Corrected empirically-wrong assumptions surfaced this session in
  apm-workflow/apm-install's own reference docs: `apm marketplace
  package add` does not accept local paths (only owner/repo remote
  shorthand -- local packages are registered by editing apm.yml's
  marketplace.packages[] directly); `apm compile` is a consumer-side
  AGENTS.md/CLAUDE.md generator, not the plugin.json producer, and
  hard-fails on skill/agent-only packages without --clean; `apm plugin
  init <name>` nests a stray subdirectory when run with a positional
  name arg from inside a same-named directory; no native Copilot
  marketplace output profile exists; .mcp.json is merged into the
  compiled plugin.json content-aware and target-scoped, with no
  dependencies.mcp entry needed for simple passthrough; pipx is the
  correct pip fallback on externally-managed Python environments.
- Renamed agent-author's copilot.agent.md template asset to
  copilot.agent.md.template so apm compile's recursive *.agent.md glob
  stops misparsing the placeholder template as a real agent primitive.

Impact:
plugin.json and marketplace.json are compiled artifacts from here on --
editing them by hand is no longer the workflow; edit apm.yml/.apm/ and
run apm pack. CONTEXT.md's Plugin/Plugin marketplace glossary entries
reflect this. ADR-0001 is marked superseded, ADR-0006 moot, and
ADR-0010 updated for the new .apm/agents/ path (project/user scope
unaffected, per ADR-0016). Full local verification: claude plugin
validate --strict on all 6 plugins, apm audit --ci, apm marketplace
check, check-manifests.sh, and the full test suite (165/165 bats,
13/13 shell scripts) all pass clean.

Fixes: #90
Refs: #88, #89
ADR: 0015
ADR: 0016

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Ub96PyaSRD9BHPktotj1pC
2026-08-12 18:21:24 +00:00

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topic source_keys
submodules
git-scm-submodule-docs

Submodules — Deep Reference

Update flag reference

Flag Meaning
--init Run init first (avoids a separate step)
--remote Use the submodule's remote branch tip instead of the superproject's recorded commit
--checkout Detached HEAD at recorded commit (default)
--rebase Rebase current branch onto recorded commit
--merge Merge recorded commit into current branch
--recursive Operate on nested submodules
--jobs <n> Parallel clone (defaults to submodule.fetchJobs)
-N / --no-fetch Skip remote fetch
--depth <n> Shallow clone
--filter <spec> Partial clone filter

Workflow patterns

Clone a repo with submodules

git clone --recurse-submodules <url>   # Git 2.13+, one step
# or
git clone <url>
git submodule update --init --recursive

Add a dependency as a submodule

git submodule add https://github.com/org/lib.git libs/lib
git commit -m "chore: add lib as submodule"

Keep submodules pinned to the superproject's recorded commit

git submodule update --recursive   # after every git pull
git config submodule.recurse true  # do this automatically on pull

Update submodules to the latest commit on their tracked branch

git submodule update --remote --merge --recursive
git commit -am "chore: update submodules to latest"

Override a submodule URL locally (private mirror)

git submodule init
# edit .git/config: submodule.<name>.url = <mirror-url>
git submodule update

Local-only override (.git/config, not .gitmodules) — doesn't propagate to collaborators. Re-running sync overwrites it with the .gitmodules URL.

Removal, in full

deinit alone does not remove a submodule — it only clears .git/config and empties the working tree. To fully remove:

git submodule deinit -f <path>   # unregister from .git/config
git rm <path>                     # remove .gitmodules entry + gitlink from index
rm -rf .git/modules/<name>/       # stale git dir; not tracked by git, not auto-cleaned
git commit -m "chore: remove <name> submodule"

.git/modules/<name>/ persisting after git rm will block re-adding the same path until manually deleted.

Relocate an embedded .git directory

git submodule absorbgitdirs [<path>...]

Moves a submodule's own .git directory into the superproject's .git/modules/<name>/, linking it back with a .git pointer file. Needed when a submodule was created or copied without going through git submodule add (e.g. converting a plain nested repo into a proper submodule).

foreach shell variables

Available inside the <command> argument to git submodule foreach:

Variable Meaning
$name Logical submodule name
$sm_path Path relative to superproject root
$displaypath Path relative to current working directory
$sha1 Recorded commit SHA
$toplevel Superproject's root path
git submodule foreach --recursive '<command>'
git submodule foreach 'git pull origin main || :'   # || : continues past failures