Clone a repo

git subrepo clone https://github.com/pixelated/leap_platform.git leap_platform

Reclone

if pull doesn't work:

git subrepo clone -f -b master https://github.com/pixelated/leap_platform.git leap_platform

Remove a subrepo

export SUBREPO='modules/mysql'
git subrepo -v clean --force $SUBREPO
git remote rm "subrepo/$SUBREPO"
rm -rf $SUBREPO
git add $SUBREPO
git commit -m"Removed subrepo $SUBREPO"

Migrate from submodules

Remove submodules

for dir in $(git submodule | awk '{print $2}'); do git submodule deinit $dir; done
rm -rf modules/*
cp .gitmodules /tmp/.gitmodules.old
rm -rf .git/modules/ .gitmodules
git checkout modules
rmdir modules/*

awk 'BEGIN { RS = "[" ; FS = "\n" } { print $1, "\"", $3 }' /tmp/.gitmodules.old | cut -d'"' -f 2,4 | sed 's/"//' | sed 's/ *url *=//g' > /tmp/submodules
while read line; do name=${line%% *}; url=${line#* }; git subrepo clone -v $url $name; done < /tmp/submodules