From: Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2017 20:26:00 GMT
Subject: Re: submodule using revision
Message-ID: <CA+P7+xpzmu2AtcFnD5tC-mW18EhNXmk6TXZFzJG_=wYUoUfxgw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CACYWVif=zSiXpqVL0td+Mgu-Wz=AzDL50kREcXJY2Dtf_4_y_g@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Nov 3, 2017 at 6:42 AM, gregory grey <ror6ax@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi guys.
>
> Currently git submodule only works with branch of the submodule in
> question. Adding a functionality to work with a revision would be
> great from my point of view.
>
> Proposed syntax is as follows:
> git submodule add -r commit_sha git://some_repository.git
>
>
> Thanks!
>
>
> --
>
> http://ror6ax.github.io/

You can get similar behavior by doing:

git submodule add -r <branch> <url>
cd <subdir>
git checkout <commit object id>
cd ..
git ad <subdir>
git commit

Thanks,
Jake