Re: git submodule update needs to be at the toplevel of working tree, why?

2013-11-22 Thread Odin Hørthe Omdal
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? > > > >

Re: git submodule update needs to be at the toplevel of working tree, why?

2013-11-22 Thread John Keeping
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