# Submodule complaint

1 messages from 2008-11-21 to 2008-11-21. Participants: Johannes Schindelin.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/16425

## Johannes Schindelin, 2008-11-21 19:51

Subject: Submodule complaint
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0811212043430.30769@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/alpine.DEB.1.00.0811212043430.30769%40pacific.mpi-cbg.de

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Hi,

just to let you know (those who are capable of coding, that is): 
submodules are _still_ a 2nd-class citizen, and very much so.

With a commit where you _know_ that a submodule has a different version 
than the current one, try this:

	$ git checkout $COMMIT -- $SUBMODULE

You will realize that it does not change the "git status" output (i.e. it 
does not change the index), which is wrong, wrong, wrong.

Ciao,
Dscho

P.S.: If I would not have enjoyed my rightfully deserved weekend beers, I 
would have taken take care of this myself, depriving _you_ of 
commit-karma.  So, in a way I am giving you the chance to increase your 
value ;-)

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