Re: [PATCH] better git-submodule status output
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- Sylvain Joyeux <sylvain.joyeux@dfki.de>
- Date
- Jul 6, 2008, 16:07 UTC
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- <20080706160758.GA23385@jhaampe.org>
- In-Reply-To
- <alpine.LSU.1.00.0807061456100.3486@wbgn129.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
> > Which one is the commit message ;-)? > > I think it is clear that Sylvain has not read > Documentation/SubmittingPatches yet.
Sylvain *has* read SubmittingPatches but has not understood every detail of this very long document.
If you could enlighten me on what is wrong ...
> > People who rely on working submodule support, do you have any feedback > > on this patch? > > Not yet. Will test/comment when the spurious "fetch" is fixed.
I thought that the only thing that 'fetch' does is update FETCH_HEAD. My problem is that doing the fetch is the only way to know what is the status of the submodule w.r.t. the registered commit. If you have a better way to get that information, I'm all ears :P
-- Sylvain