`--name` option doesn't work with `git submodule add` command -

`--name` option doesn't work with `git submodule add` command -

i want add together git submodule different name like:

git submodule add together --name foo git@bitbucket.org:ironsand/cookbook-foo.git

i wanted create git submodule directory named foo, repository created name cookbook-foo.

most i'm doing wrong, don't know wrong.

how can alter name of git submodule directory?

don't conflate path , name of submodule. want run

git submodule add together git@bitbucket.org:ironsand/cookbook-foo.git foo/

instead. more details, see git-submodule man page; relevant git-submodule syntax here is

git submodule [--name <name>] <repository> [<path>]

where...

<repository> url of new submodule's origin repository. <path>, if specified, determines name of subdirectory (of superproject's root directory) receive clone of repo living @ <repository>; if left unspecified, <path> defaults name of repo. <name> submodule's name, i.e. name appear in corresponding submodule entry in .gitmodules file; if left unspecified, <name> defaults <path>.

here toy illustration prepare ideas:

$ cd ~/desktop $ mkdir test $ cd test $ git init $ git submodule add together --name brutus https://github.com/bradfitz/gitbrute bradfitz_bruteforce $ ls -a . .git bradfitz_bruteforce .. .gitmodules $ cat .gitmodules [submodule "brutus"] path = bradfitz_bruteforce url = https://github.com/bradfitz/gitbrute

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