From: Sylvain Joyeux Date: Sun, 06 Jul 2008 16:07:59 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] better git-submodule status output Message-ID: <20080706160758.GA23385@jhaampe.org> In-Reply-To: > > 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