When a submodule is renamed, git log gives incorrect output: commit 350ebece9bce8d9c495f9a51e6f5529749c5c3cc (HEAD -> master) Author: David Turner <[email protected]> Date: Wed Jan 2 17:09:56 2019 -0500
move
diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index da1a767..f4baf2a 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-[submodule "mymod"]
- path = mymod
+[submodule "morx"]
+ path = morx
url = ../sub
Submodule mymod 86da4a4...86da4a4 (commits not present)
^-- I expect this last line to tell me that the submodule has been
renamed, rather than that it has changed SHA to the same SHA.
See the attached shell script for a demo of this. I tested with
b21ebb671bb as well as 2.18 and 2.19. Thanks to Adam Bliss
<[email protected]> for helping to figure out the reproduction steps.
demo2.sh
Description: application/shellscript

