From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2010 14:47:18 GMT
Subject: Re: Manually edit the commit a submodule is pointing to?
Message-ID: <20100412144718.GC6313@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <i2jc115fd3c1004120731g950c127fn44603df222de8273@mail.gmail.com>

Tim Visher <tim.visher@gmail.com> wrote:
> I recently began to use submodules to manage large packages that I
> depend on from my .emacs file and I've run into an issue where I made
> a change locally and didn't push out to the master repo.  I'm now not
> at that box and I'm trying to checkout the repo fresh.
> 
> The problem is that the master repo doesn't have the commit specified…
> Where?  So I can't edit the submodule commit and then readd it because
> I don't have the submodule to edit since I can't check it out.  Is it
> possible to just manually munge the commit that the submodule is
> pointing to?

Yup:

  git update-index --cacheinfo 160000 commit path

-- 
Shawn.