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Re: Can't understand the behaviour of git-diff --submodule

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FMFrancis Moreau <francis.moro@gmail.com>
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Oct 26, 2012, 20:43 UTC
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On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 10:05 PM, Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de> wrote: [...]

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> That is weird, "git diff --submodule" should show that too. Is there
> anything unusual about your setup? (The only explanation I can come
> up with after checking the code is that your submodule has neither a
> .git directory nor a gitfile or the objects directory in there doesn't
> contain these commits)

Oh now you're asking, I think the submodule has been added by using the --reference option of git-submodule-add.

  $ cd configs
  $ cat .git
  gitdir: ../.git/modules/configs
Thanks
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Francis
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