I thought I knew what I was doing, after reading the instructions.
When I checked out an older version of the main project, I have to sync to the proper (older) version of the submodule too. git admonished me to run the command from the toplevel of the working tree, and when that was done,
git submodule update
gives no output.
git submodule status
shows "-8441e..." which is the SHA1 of the version I expect I need. But git status shows me that the submodule is modified. git gui shows
@ -1 +1 @@
-Subproject commit 8441ea2e54fa2e8a4f45240a0d399f1c775a1789
+Subproject commit bc47be2d623cbca83701d9f30a18fab6271dd38f
and gitk, run from the subproject's subdirectory, shows that bc47b, the newer stuff, is still active. Browsing the files, I see this is indeed the case.
Now, my impression was that 'git submodule update' was supposed to check out the proper version, namely 4441e, not merely do nothing without even an error. What am I missing?
--John
git version 1.6.5.1.1367.gcd48
msysgit on Windows XP 64-bit
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