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Re: Updating submodules

From
Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>
Date
Apr 5, 2008, 23:01 UTC
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On 4/5/08, Pat Maddox <pergesu@gmail.com> wrote:
> Do I need to cd into each submodule dir and fetch/rebase?  git
>  submodule update doesn't seem to do anything, though I would assume
>  it's used to update the submodules...

"git submodule update" updates each submodule to the version that was checked into the supermodule. It doesn't do anything like fetch, rebase, or pull.

Avery
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