Re: Submodules

[Sven Verdoolaege <skimo@kotnet.org>]

On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 10:12:52PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> This is what I did.  I cloned msysgit.git, which contains one submodule.  
> To initialise that, I did "git submodule init" and "git submodule update".  
> It went and cloned the submodule.  Fine.
> 
> Then I committed in the submodule, a well-needed fix.
> 
> If I now go to the superproject again, and say "git submodule status", it 
> will not find the newest commit, and complain that it cannot access that 
> object.

There must be something else you're not telling us.
This procedure works just fine for me

bash-3.00$ git clone git://repo.or.cz/msysgit.git
Initialized empty Git repository in /home/skimo/git/msysgit/.git/
remote: Generating pack...
remote: Done counting 1857 objects.
remote: Deltifying 1857 objects...
remote:  100% (1857/1857) done
Indexing 1857 objects...
remote: Total 1857 (delta 475), reused 1857 (delta 475)
 100% (1857/1857) done
Resolving 475 deltas...
 100% (475/475) done
bash-3.00$ cd msysgit/
bash-3.00$ git submodule init
Submodule 'git' (git://repo.or.cz/git/mingw/4msysgit.git/) registered for path 'git'
bash-3.00$ git submodule update
Initialized empty Git repository in /home/skimo/git/msysgit/git/.git/
remote: Generating pack...
remote: Done counting 58074 objects.
remote: Deltifying 58074 objects...
remote:  100% (58074/58074) done
Indexing 58074 objects...
remote: Total 58074 (delta 40790), reused 55132 (delta 37853)
 100% (58074/58074) done
Resolving 40790 deltas...
 100% (40790/40790) done
Submodule path 'git': checked out 'f1e1dc5119bd9862bb4d2a975c8ca6362ea43af5'
bash-3.00$ cd git/
bash-3.00$ touch a; git add a; git commit -m 'add a'
Created commit 5318784: add a
 0 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 a
bash-3.00$ cd ..
bash-3.00$ git submodule status
+5318784e6d492d988284a4d9aa4025496f2a3309 git (v1.5.3-rc2-690-g5318784)

skimo