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Subject: Re: [PATCH] status&commit: Teach them to show commits of modified submodules.
Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2007 17:01:08 -0700
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"Yin Ping" <pkufranky@gmail.com> writes:

> On 11/3/07, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>> How does this work when you are a toplevel developer and do not
>> have the submodule cloned and checked out?
>>
>> Our code should treat having the submodule directory and not
>> having it when there is a mode 160000 entry in the index equally
>> likely.  Cloning and checking-out is _not_ the norm (nor the
>> exception).
>>
> When submodule is not cheched out, it is never modified.

How so?  Can't you update the index alone?