


### Discussed in https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-cli/discussions/4664

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<sup>Originally posted by **shinneuro** March  7, 2023</sup>
Hi,

I am building an website with multiple submodules as mentioned in #1282.
`*.qmd` files are located inside each submodules, and they are all rendered together inside `_site` folder of the main repository.

One feature I would like to implement, but seems currently not working, is separate `repo-url` for `*.qmd` files inside separate submodules. I tried creating `_metadata.yml` inside the submodule, and added a new `repo-url` for the submodule but it seemed not working.

So, `quarto.yml` inside the root directory would be like

```
website:
  title: "quarto"
  repo-url: https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-cli
  repo-actions: [edit]
```

and `_metadata.yml` inside the submodule would be something like

```
website:
  repo-url: https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-web
```

However, this approach did not work.

Would there be any way to accomplish this type of work?

Thank you in advance.

Best regards,
Minho</div>
dragonstyle
2023-03-07T13:55:13Z
dragonstyle
enhancement good-first-issue
v1.4
open
Allow page / directory level metadata to provide `repo-url`
https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-cli/issues/4668