Re: Manually edit the commit a submodule is pointing to?

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On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 10:47 AM, Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Tim Visher <tim.visher@xxxxxxxxx> 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 made
>> a change locally and didn't push out to the master repo.  I'm now 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 specified…
>> Where?  So 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.  Is it
>> possible to just manually munge the commit that the submodule is
>> pointing to?
>
> Yup:
>
>  git update-index --cacheinfo 160000 commit path

Thanks, Shawn.  That worked great.

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