From: Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de>
To: George Papanikolaou <g3orge.app@gmail.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: mv/rm submodules
Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2013 18:49:22 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <52A602A2.6060909@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAByyCQCakKyUqJQDdFrTMf2CUJihRhqSUVCwT21VDN1EOerVWw@mail.gmail.com>
Am 09.12.2013 11:59, schrieb George Papanikolaou:
> I was just playing with the new features of 'git mv' in 1.8.5 and
> realized that both rm
> and mv don't change the .git/config file. Is that on purpuse?
Yes. Only the "path" entry in .gitmodules needs to be updated
when a submodule is moved. Its name stays the same and thus the
.git/config entry automatically applies to the new location.
> Also after mv you need to run 'submodule update' and I think this should be
> documented somewhere.
You're right, this should be mentioned in the mv man page. I'll
prepare a patch for that.
Thanks for your feedback.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-12-09 17:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-12-09 10:59 mv/rm submodules George Papanikolaou
2013-12-09 17:49 ` Jens Lehmann [this message]
2014-01-06 19:21 ` [PATCH] mv: better document side effects when moving a submodule Jens Lehmann
2014-01-06 22:40 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-01-07 17:57 ` Jens Lehmann
2014-01-07 21:30 ` [PATCH v2 0/2] better document side effects when [re]moving " Jens Lehmann
2014-01-07 21:31 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] mv: better document side effects when moving " Jens Lehmann
2014-01-07 21:32 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] rm: better document side effects when removing " Jens Lehmann
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