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Suggestion: git submodule status

Subject: Suggestion: git submodule status

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Mark - mkdynamic· Feb 8, 2009, 21:39 UTC · lore

Considering a situation with 1 submodule:

   $ git submodule status
   SHA1 /some/path (REFERENCE)

Would it not be more useful if it reported the REFERENCE as reported by:

   git describe --all SHA1

rather than the current implementation, which I believe shows the result from:

   git describe -SHA1

Does this make sense, or am I missing something?

Thanks,

~ Mark

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