Re: [PATCH 0/2] Tests for some submodule corner cases.

Am 01.06.2011 18:11, schrieb Marc Branchaud:

On 11-05-31 05:26 PM, Jens Lehmann wrote:

quoted

No problem, maybe that's just an indication that a reference to "git status"
being more capable of telling what is going on inside a submodule is missing
to the man page for "git submodule status".

Yes, that'd possibly help.

Ok, I'll see if I can come up with something ...

So here's my basic question: How can my build system be sure that a submodule
contains the correct working directory?  Do I need to do both "git submodule
status" to check the submodule's HEAD, then also use "git status" to see if
that HEAD is correctly checked out?

No, "git status" will do both. The only thing it will be silent about is when
a submodule isn't initialized at all ("git submodule status" shows this with
a '-').