git submodule update needs to be at the toplevel of working tree, why?
Hi, I'm usually in a subfolder doing actual work. A very common problem I have is wanting to do a submodule update, but git really hates that. And I wonder why? It wouldn't be hard to cd to the toplevel working directory, do the update, and cd back. It's what I have to do manually every time now already: $ git submodule update You need to run this command from the toplevel of the working tree. $ cd ../.. $ git submodule update Submodule path 'myproject/libs/external-module': checked out '434fdf32a7add62... $ cd - I see that it comes from git-sh-setup, so no rationale for this rather weird and surprising behavior is given in the git-submodule file. :) -- Odin Hørthe Omdal odi...@opera.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe git in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Re: git submodule update needs to be at the toplevel of working tree, why?
On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 02:22:30PM +0100, Odin Hørthe Omdal wrote: I'm usually in a subfolder doing actual work. A very common problem I have is wanting to do a submodule update, but git really hates that. And I wonder why? It wouldn't be hard to cd to the toplevel working directory, do the update, and cd back. It's what I have to do manually every time now already: This restriction was removed in Git 1.8.4. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe git in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Re: git submodule update needs to be at the toplevel of working tree, why?
On Fri, Nov 22, 2013, at 14:47, John Keeping wrote: On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 02:22:30PM +0100, Odin Hørthe Omdal wrote: I'm usually in a subfolder doing actual work. A very common problem I have is wanting to do a submodule update, but git really hates that. And I wonder why? It wouldn't be hard to cd to the toplevel working directory, do the update, and cd back. It's what I have to do manually every time now already: This restriction was removed in Git 1.8.4. Oh, awesome! My system git is 1.8.3.2. I'll do a manual install then :) Sorry for the noise. (I didn't find any earlier talk about it, but I only used gmame's search, so it might have missed something) -- Odin Hørthe Omdal odi...@opera.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe git in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
