Am 01.06.2011 18:11, schrieb Marc Branchaud: > On 11-05-31 05:26 PM, Jens Lehmann wrote: >> 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 '-'). -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html