Github Submodules: Linking to Initial Commits instead of latest one

[Mohamed-E-Fayed]

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Recently, I noticed that submodules for this git repo has are all at initial commit despite having some content pushed earlier to them! It is especially weird that accessing submodules from the website yields initial committed repos, but accessing the links in .gitmodules file opens repositories with some more content!

Here are the steps I followed:

1. Previously, I have been editing to those repositories and pushed them.

The following steps are reproducible.

2. Clone the repo:

$ git clone —recurse-submodules https://github.gatech.edu/SonificationLab/GraphIngestionEngineFall2024
$ ls GraphIngestionEngineFall2024/GIE-metrics/ # will show only README!
README.md

3. Checking the .gitmodule

$ cat .gitmodules
…
[submodule "GIE-metrics"]
	path = GIE-metrics
	url = https://github.gatech.edu/mfayed8/GIE-metrics

Checking from browser:

4. Open the repo, then click on GIE-metrics submodule. It will open the following link:

5. If we remove tree/*, we get the latest version!

6. Add the old content and try to commit, I get detached head!

(pytorch) ipsec-10-2-0-121:GIE-metrics mohamedfayed$ cp ~
(pytorch) ipsec-10-2-0-121:GIE-metrics mohamedfayed$ cp -r ~/important_repos/GraphIngestionEngineFall2024/GIE-metrics/* ./
(pytorch) ipsec-10-2-0-121:GIE-metrics mohamedfayed$ git add .
(pytorch) ipsec-10-2-0-121:GIE-metrics mohamedfayed$ git commit -m 'add: content of old repository'
[detached HEAD 5985f7b] add: content of old repository
 17 files changed, 1182 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
 create mode 100644 classifier-inference.py
 create mode 100644 conf/classifier_inference.yaml
 create mode 100644 conf/data_extractor.yaml
 create mode 100755 data_extractor.py
 create mode 100644 data_extractor.yaml
 create mode 100644 inference.yaml
 create mode 100644 ipy_scripts/compare_tables.py
 create mode 100644 ipy_scripts/compute_accuracy_for_classifier_on_icpr.py
 create mode 100644 my_constants.py
 create mode 100644 my_helping_functions.py
 create mode 100644 relative_mapping_similarity.py
 create mode 100644 relative_mapping_similarity_test.py
 create mode 100644 rms_test_tables/table_bar_chart.csv
 create mode 100644 rms_test_tables/table_bar_chart_stacked.csv
 create mode 100644 rms_test_tables/table_line_chart.csv
 create mode 100644 rms_test_tables/table_pie_chart.csv

Could you please clarify what is going wrong with those steps in cloning the latest versions of those repositories ?!

Thank you so much.