From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2008 13:00:07 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] better git-submodule status output
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0807081358481.18205@racer>
In-Reply-To: <20080708122244.GE14794@joyeux>

Hi,

On Tue, 8 Jul 2008, Sylvain Joyeux wrote:

> [somebody wrote]
>
> > [somebody else wrote]
> >
> > > What I was missing is, given the current discussion, a git-submodule 
> > > fetch alike to what Avery was proposing, which fetches all 
> > > submodules in one command. Having to do the fetch/update manually 
> > > for each submodule is really cumbersome -- I have around 30 modules 
> > > in the superproject.
> > 
> > Did I not suggest "git submodule update" earlier?  AFAIR this updates 
> > all submodules that have been initialized.
> 
> ... and checkouts the commit registered in the superproject. Therefore 
> neither git-submodule status nor git-submodule summary can give an idea 
> of "what's new in submodules"

Yeah, now I get what you are saying.  So you want a "git submodule peek" 
or some such.

Ciao,
Dscho