From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sat, 03 Nov 2007 00:01:08 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] status&commit: Teach them to show commits of modified submodules.
Message-ID: <7vfxzoyz7f.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <46dff0320711021650q4e56d025q63a961176c682a14@mail.gmail.com>

"Yin Ping" <pkufranky@gmail.com> writes:

> On 11/3/07, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>> How does this work when you are a toplevel developer and do not
>> have the submodule cloned and checked out?
>>
>> Our code should treat having the submodule directory and not
>> having it when there is a mode 160000 entry in the index equally
>> likely.  Cloning and checking-out is _not_ the norm (nor the
>> exception).
>>
> When submodule is not cheched out, it is never modified.

How so?  Can't you update the index alone?