Re: Updating submodules

["Avery Pennarun" <apenwarr@gmail.com>]

On 4/5/08, Pat Maddox <pergesu@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 4:01 PM, Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com> wrote:
>  >
>  > On 4/5/08, Pat Maddox <pergesu@gmail.com> wrote:
>  >  > Do I need to cd into each submodule dir and fetch/rebase?  git
>  >  >  submodule update doesn't seem to do anything, though I would assume
>  >  >  it's used to update the submodules...
>  >
>  >  "git submodule update" updates each submodule to the version that was
>  >  checked into the supermodule.  It doesn't do anything like fetch,
>  >  rebase, or pull.
>
> Okay.  So I've got a parent repo with three submodules.  I've been
>  working in one submodule and have been committing changes.  Now I
>  wanted to get the latest changes upstream...I have to rebase that repo
>  individually, right?

Yes.  Be careful of which branch your submodule is on; if "git
submodule update" has done anything in the past, you might not be on a
branch at all, in which case you have to create a local branch with
your changes before you can safely rebase or push.

Avery