Re: What's cooking in git.git (topics)

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Apr 22, 2008, 17:28 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0804221827330.4460@eeepc-johanness>
In-Reply-To: <46dff0320804221013m2ff0320am31b7f8beb5f26f1b@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

On Wed, 23 Apr 2008, Ping Yin wrote:

> If we go back to a old HEAD or switch to another branch with changed 
> path for a submodule, what should 'git submodule update' do? I think 
> entries in .gitmodules should take precedence.

Literally the most common reason for a _different_ .gitmodules in an older revision is that the repository was moved to another machine.

In this case, your suggestion is actively wrong.

Ciao, Dscho

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