Re: Changing branches in supermodule does not affect submodule?

From: Peter Krefting <peter@softwolves.pp.se>
Date: Oct 14, 2009, 06:31 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.00.0910140728420.16100@ds9.cixit.se>
In-Reply-To: <4AD47C65.5080904@web.de>

Jens Lehmann:

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> just calling "git submodule update" every time you want the submodule to 
> be updated according to the state committed in the superproject will do 
> the trick (but keep in mind that all referenced commits have to be 
> accessible in the local clone of your submodule, so you might have to do a 
> fetch there once in a while).

Is it possible to automate this from a hook or something else? Basically, I would like it to update all the submodules to the state recorded in the commit I move to, if they were in a clean state before I moved. I do not want it to change states if I do something like

   cd submodule
   # do some changes
   git commit
   cd ..
   git checkout -b newbranch

because there I want the commit I made to the submodule to be recorded on the new branch I created. But then it was in a dirty state before I created the branch anyway, so that shouldn't be a problem.

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