How do I manage conflicts with git submodules?

Question

I have a git superproject that references several submodules and I am trying to lock down a workflow for the rest of the my project members to work within.

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Answer 1

I struggled a bit with the answers on this question and didn't have much luck with the answers in a similar SO post either. So this is what worked for me - bearing in mind that in my case, the submodule was maintained by a different team, so the conflict came from different submodule versions in master and my local branch of the project I was working on:

1. Run git status - make a note of the submodule folder with conflicts

2. Reset the submodule to the version that was last committed in the current branch:

   git reset HEAD path/to/submodule

3. At this point, you have a conflict-free version of your submodule which you can now update to the latest version in the submodule's repository:

   cd path/to/submodule
   git submodule foreach git pull origin SUBMODULE-BRANCH-NAME

4. And now you can commit that and get back to work.