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From: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>
Subject: Re: Manually edit the commit a submodule is pointing to?
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2010 07:47:18 -0700
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Tim Visher <tim.visher@gmail.com> wrote:
> I recently began to use submodules to manage large packages that I
> depend on from my .emacs file and I've run into an issue where I made
> a change locally and didn't push out to the master repo.  I'm now not
> at that box and I'm trying to checkout the repo fresh.
>=20
> The problem is that the master repo doesn't have the commit specified=
=E2=80=A6
> Where?  So I can't edit the submodule commit and then readd it becaus=
e
> I don't have the submodule to edit since I can't check it out.  Is it
> possible to just manually munge the commit that the submodule is
> pointing to?

Yup:

  git update-index --cacheinfo 160000 commit path

--=20
Shawn.