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From: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>
Subject: Re: git submodule update needs to be at the toplevel of working
 tree, why?
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2013 13:47:47 +0000
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On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 02:22:30PM +0100, Odin H=F8rthe 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?
>=20
> 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.