On 06/23/2011 07:13 AM, Maarten Billemont wrote: > When I initialize 2/3 submodules of my git repository and do git submodule update, all is fine: Only the 2 submodules that I need are updated. > > When I run a git submodule sync to update the URLs that may have been changed in .gitmodules, it ADDS the URL of the submodule that was NOT initialized, thus "initializing" it. > > Now, when I run git submodule update, it starts checking out the third module and my workflow is broken. > > git submodule sync should not add entries to .git/config, only update existing ones.-- Maarten, Is it enough to similarly limit 'submodule sync' the same way you did with 'submodule init'? Like this: git submodule sync -- A B >From 'git help submodule': "git submodule sync" synchronizes all submodules while "git submodule sync — A" synchronizes submodule "A" only. Phil -- 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