Overleaf: Compile does not work if files are included through git submodules

[PH111P]

I use a common Settings repo for multiple other repos, which contains several tex files.
If I include this repo (as a submodule) in one of my project repos and try to compile it with sharelatex, the compilation fails due to missing files (the files from that setings repo).

[JohanWinther]

What is the status of this? It has now been over 1.5 years and the sync feature is kind of useless when you have standardised files as part of a submodule.

[PH111P]

Personally, missing this feature was a deal breaker for me, so I stopped using sharelatex (long ago).

[keheliya]

Are there any plans to support git submodules in overleaf? A lot of latex projects reuse bib files across repositories with the help of submodules.

[BJMH]

This would be a hugely important feature for me. I have a bunch of related documents that I would like to share some common styling files. I use GitHub sync and added the common files as a submodule locally on my PC only to realise there is no way to call git submodule update --init from within Overleaf.

The .gitmodules file appears in Overleaf, so perhaps Overleaf could provide an Initialise button (git submodule update --init) and an Update button (git submodule update) somewhere, perhaps under Menu>Sync>Git, if such a file is present.

If just those two options were available I could manage all other aspects of the submodules locally on my PC.

[Qinka]

I use the git submodule to store BibTeX files for reusing. But after I paid for the subscription, I found it does not support submodules at all.