Git: ‘submodule’ is not a git-command
Apr 17
This was the error I received when deploying a Capistrano deployment from github. Keep in mind to even get your submodules deployed you’ll need to add the following var to deploy.rb:
set :git_enable_submodules, 1
It turns out that I had git 1.5.2.5 and submodule support did not come until 1.5.3. So I was forced to upgrade. The process went something like this:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get build-dep git-core
sudo apt-get remove git-core
wget http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/git-1.6.2.tar.gz
tar xzf git-1.6.2.tar.gz
cd cd git-1.6.2
./configure
make
sudo make install
Type “git submodule” and you should see the appropriate error, meaning it recognizes the submodule parameter. There’s a chance that git won’t be in your path so just do the following:
export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin
You should be good to go!
Hi Dennis,
worked for me and saved some time
great !
thanks
Joe
No problem Joe. At least there are two of us that ran into the same problem
I am on a shared server and I could not find “deploy.rb” anywhere under my jailed shell access in a shared server. I am using Git 1.7.0.2. Please assist.