Re: [PATCH] unpack-trees.c: assume submodules are clean during check-out

On Sat, Aug 04, 2007 at 12:03:28PM -0400, Eran Tromer wrote:

Works here: it silences the check and allows switching branches. Still,
leaving the working tree dirty can inadvertently affect subsequent
commits. Consider the most ordinary of sequences:

$ git checkout experimental-death-ray
$ git submodules update
(return a week later, woozy from the vacation.)
$ git checkout master

Here, it'll warn that your submodule isn't up-to-date.

(hack hack hack)
$ git commit -a -m "fixed typos"

And if you run "git status" first, it'll tell you that the submodule
(still) isn't up-to-date.

$ git push
(Oops. You've just accidentally committed the wrong submodule heads.)

You always have to be careful when doing "git commit -a".

Another approach is for pull, checkout etc. to automatically update the
submodule' head ref, but no more.

Then everything, including "git submodule update", would assume
that the submodule is up-to-date.

skimo