build.gradle changes for git submodule
ant, git, gradle, maven
Solution
First, you can have only one step:
git submodule update --init --recursive
Second, Gradle itself has an open issue (since 2010) to integrate that step: GRADLE-21: "Streamline issues with including the build as a git submodule".
A `git clone --recursive` would clone:checkout your repo with submodules checked out.
The issue suggests various ways, one of them being making a gradle wrapper (which would call the appropriate git submodule command before calling `gradle`).
Problem
Source Tree is as follows: ``` core // root .gitmodules // this has box-sdk as submodule box-sdk // git submodule BoxJavaLibraryV2 // Box related files ``` I also created `settings.gradle` ``` include 'box-sdk:BoxJavaLibraryV2' ``` My build.gradle ``` compile project(':box-sdk:BoxJavaLibraryV2') ``` At this point I was able to compile and build root project with box as dependency. Problem started when I tried to checkin and checkout again the whole project. I did following: I was able to check in `.gitmodules` and `box-sdk directory`. But I was not able to checkin BoxJavaLibraryV2. ``` It errored out saying BoxJavaLibraryV2 is a submodule ``` I checked out root again separately where I get both .gitmodules and box-sdk (without BoxJavaLibraryV2) Then to build my project I had to do manually: ``` git submodule init git submodule update gradle war ``` What changes and where I need to do to eliminate init and update steps. What I am looking for is: when I checkout `git master`, the whole project with submodules should build with `gradle war` Please help