Bitbucket is not cloning all folders

Question

Yesterday I pushed all my project files to a repo called my repo

Today, when I clone the repo on another computer it clones all files except one folder which name is something like event-calendar[2340sdfda0s]

Can you tell me how can I get all folders when I clone a repo?

Here is the repo screenshot:

Answer 1

From the screenshot it looks like Bitbucket sees that folder as a submodule. It could be due to wrong configuration in the Git repository or something else (from just a screenshot is really hard to tell). So you have two options here:

• Reinitialize the repository and make sure that folder is not added as submodule

• Clone the repo with git clone --recurse-submodules my/repo/origin

But I prefer the first solution since chances are this behavior is not intended

Answer 2

This folder is a submodule.

You should see a .gitmodules file under your root.
You can delete the current folder and clone it again or use the commands below to update your submodule:

Cloning a repository with submodules

If you want to clone a repository including its submodules you can use the --recursive parameter.

# Cloning a repository with submodules
git clone --recursive <url>

Update submodules after clone

git submodule init
git submodule update

# Or
git submodule update --init submoduleName

Fetch and checkout any nested submodules

git submodule update --init --recursive

To view submodule status

git submodule status

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As you can see in the image below, a submodule is simply a sub-project inside your project.