From: Jens Lehmann Date: Fri, 07 Feb 2014 21:25:52 GMT Subject: Re: [WIP/PATCH 9/9] submodule: teach unpack_trees() to update submodules Message-ID: <52F54F60.3040103@web.de> In-Reply-To: <20140203201900.GC16057@odin.tremily.us> Am 03.02.2014 21:19, schrieb W. Trevor King: > On Mon, Feb 03, 2014 at 08:54:17PM +0100, Jens Lehmann wrote: >> Implement the functionality needed to enable work tree manipulating >> commands so that an changed submodule does not only affect the index but >> it also updates the work tree of any initialized submodule according to >> the SHA-1 recorded in the superproject. > > How about: > > …so that *a* changed submodule ** updates the index and work tree of > any initialized submodule according to the SHA-1 recorded in the > superproject. Before this commit it updated neither; users had to > run 'submodule update' to propagate gitlink updates into the > submodule. > > I'm pretty sure that's accurate anyway ;). And I like it better ;-)