# ''git submodule update'' to push change to the individual repositories that predate the superproject.
==Footnotes==
#{{note|lie_parent}} Well that isn't true at all, Git supports this as of v1.5.3, but the official porcelain doesn't. You can ''git init'' a parent directory, and create your own ".gitmodules", then follow it up with a ''git submodule init''. Generally speaking though, what the porcelain doesn't cover is outside of the scope of this book.