A submodule is a foreign repository that is embedded within a dedicated subdirectory of the repositories tree.

.. automethod:: pygit2.Repository.lookup_submodule

.. automethod:: pygit2.Repository.listall_submodules

.. autoattribute:: pygit2.Submodule.name

.. autoattribute:: pygit2.Submodule.path

.. autoattribute:: pygit2.Submodule.url

.. automethod:: pygit2.Submodule.open