From: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2013 13:47:47 GMT
Subject: Re: git submodule update needs to be at the toplevel of working tree, why?
Message-ID: <20131122134747.GC15033@serenity.lan>
In-Reply-To: <1385126550.10973.50760825.6B70B959@webmail.messagingengine.com>

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.