From: Odin Hørthe Omdal <odinho@opera.com>
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2013 14:37:00 GMT
Subject: Re: git submodule update needs to be at the toplevel of working tree, why?
Message-ID: <1385131020.5838.50791533.395F2F63@webmail.messagingengine.com>
In-Reply-To: <20131122134747.GC15033@serenity.lan>

On Fri, Nov 22, 2013, at 14:47, John Keeping wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 02:22:30PM +0100, Odin Hørthe Omdal wrote:
> > I'm usually in a subfolder doing actual work. A very common problem I
> > have is wanting to do a submodule update, but git really hates that. And
> > I wonder why?
> > 
> > It wouldn't be hard to cd to the toplevel working directory, do the
> > update, and cd back. It's what I have to do manually every time now
> > already:
> 
> This restriction was removed in Git 1.8.4.

Oh, awesome!  My system git is 1.8.3.2.

I'll do a manual install then :)

Sorry for the noise. (I didn't find any earlier talk about it, but I
only used gmame's search, so it might have missed something)

-- 
  Odin Hørthe Omdal
  odinho@opera.com