diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 4f78a85c..bc2649c2 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,9 +1,6 @@
 # Ignore the documentation folder
 /doc
 
-# We don't want anyone to checkin /data folder
-/data
-
 # Ignore local data
 /colobot.ini
 /savegame
diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..2e2b0cc5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+[submodule "data"]
+	path = data
+	url = git://github.com/colobot/colobot-data.git
diff --git a/data b/data
new file mode 160000
index 00000000..a1049a69
--- /dev/null
+++ b/data
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Subproject commit a1049a693f20ae5317ff5ff061104add21ba2600