How to get rid of Git submodules untracked status?

Question

I can\'t seem to get rid of untracked content in Git\'s submodules. Running git status yields:

# On branch master
# Changes not staged for commit:
#          


        

Answer 1

I got stuck on this issue yesterday, in a project which had close to 12 submodules.

git status was showing output.

# On branch master
# Changes not staged for commit:
#   (use "git add ..." to update what will be committed)
#   (use "git checkout -- ..." to discard changes in working directory)
#   (commit or discard the untracked or modified content in submodules)
#
#   modified:   proj1 (untracked content)
#   modified:   proj1 (modified content, untracked content)
#   ...

To resolve the untracked content error, I had to remove the untracked files from all submodules (all were *.pyc, *.pyo files generated by python) using a .gitignore.

To resolve the other, I had to run git submodule update which updated each of the submodules.