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Asked: 2026-06-05T02:27:26+00:00

How would I go about adding a Git submodule for a specific tag or

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How would I go about adding a Git submodule for a specific tag or commit?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Submodule repositories stay in a detached HEAD state pointing to a specific commit. Changing that commit simply involves checking out a different tag or commit then adding the change to the parent repository.

    $ cd submodule
$ git checkout v2.0
Previous HEAD position was 5c1277e... bumped version to 2.0.5
HEAD is now at f0a0036... version 2.0

    git-status on the parent repository will now report a dirty tree: 

    # On branch dev [...]
#
#   modified:   submodule (new commits)

    Add the submodule directory and commit to store the new pointer.

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