How do I get back my submodules listing?

Question

I have a repo that has submodules. They were displaying fine for a long time, but now they have disappeared from the repo's tree view. The repo still has those submodules, they are just not displaying in the tree – and thus not able for me to work with. Any idea what might have caused this to happen?

thinsoldier · Answer

Try cloning a fresh copy of the repo to a different folder and then init and update the submodule. If that works from the terminal try doing the same from sourcetree. If it doesn't work from sourcetree hopefully you can at least bookmark in sourcetree the one that worked from the terminal and see everything again.

David Sherwood · Answer

I went into terminal mode and typed:

git submodule status

I get back:

bash.exe: warning: could not find /tmp, please create!

Is this the problem? What does it mean?

David Sherwood · Answer

I have the same problem. I tried to add one of the missing submodules but git says it still in the index.