From: Sylvain Joyeux <sylvain.joyeux@dfki.de>
Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2008 12:22:44 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] better git-submodule status output
Message-ID: <20080708122244.GE14794@joyeux>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0807081320220.4319@eeepc-johanness>

> > What I was missing is, given the current discussion, a git-submodule 
> > fetch alike to what Avery was proposing, which fetches all submodules in 
> > one command. Having to do the fetch/update manually for each submodule 
> > is really cumbersome -- I have around 30 modules in the superproject.
> 
> Did I not suggest "git submodule update" earlier?  AFAIR this updates all 
> submodules that have been initialized.

... and checkouts the commit registered in the superproject. Therefore
neither git-submodule status nor git-submodule summary can give an idea
of "what's new in submodules"

Sylvain