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Re: submodules : switching to an older commit/Tag in project with submodules

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Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Date
Aug 16, 2018, 18:13 UTC
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On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 12:54 PM, Shani Fridman <Shani.Fridman@visionmap.com> wrote:

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> Hi everybody,
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> I've got a question regarding submodules -
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> I'm working on a git project with submodules connected to it, and pulling changes from them every month (more or less).
> Sometimes I need to checkout older versions of the project (tags or specific commits), that needs the older versions of the submodules as they were when I defined the tag. The problem is, that the checkout only changes the superProject directories, and not the submodules... I have to checkout the relevant submodules commit manually.
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> Have you came across the same problem? Any idea what can I do?
You run "git submodule update".
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  1. Shani FridmanAug 16, 2018
  2. Stefan BellerAug 16, 2018
  3. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonAug 16, 2018
  4. Junio C HamanoAug 16, 2018
  5. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonAug 16, 2018

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