From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2024 00:32:02 GMT
Subject: Re: Possible bug in Git submodule update --inti
Message-ID: <xmqqldxghxml.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <8db6eba3-a151-3819-159b-921a6c3f3242@gmail.com>

Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi Søren,
> ...
> in the doc for 'git submodule init' [3]. Note that this is _not_ 
> the exact command that you ran according to the trace output below, which is:
> ...
> I think what you'd want to do is simply:
>
> git submodule set-url -- <path-to-submodule> <new-url> 
> git submodule update --init --remote
>
> This will fetch the new URL and checkout the tip commit of its HEAD branch.
> You will still have all the objects from the old URL locally though. If you want
> to avoid that, you should completely remove the Git repository of the submodule:
>
> git submodule set-url -- <path-to-submodule> <new-url> 
> git submodule deinit -f <path-to-submodule>
> rm -rf $(git rev-parse --git-dir)/modules/Submodules/Lodam.Standard
> git submodule update --init --remote

Thanks for a pleasant exchange, RFH with sufficient information
necessary to help, with a detailed diagnosis and an alternative
offered.