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From: Tim Visher <tim.visher@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Manually edit the commit a submodule is pointing to?
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2010 14:19:15 -0400
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On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 10:47 AM, Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>=
 wrote:
> 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 mad=
e
>> a change locally and didn't push out to the master repo. =C2=A0I'm n=
ow not
>> at that box and I'm trying to checkout the repo fresh.
>>
>> The problem is that the master repo doesn't have the commit specifie=
d=E2=80=A6
>> Where? =C2=A0So I can't edit the submodule commit and then readd it =
because
>> I don't have the submodule to edit since I can't check it out. =C2=A0=
Is it
>> possible to just manually munge the commit that the submodule is
>> pointing to?
>
> Yup:
>
> =C2=A0git update-index --cacheinfo 160000 commit path

Thanks, Shawn.  That worked great.

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