Junio C Hamano wrote: > When you are changing information _about_ submodules (e.g. you may > be updating the recommended URL to fetch it from), you can use the > usual tools like "git diff" to see how it changed, just like changes > to any other file. If the information _about_ a submodule A is > stored at path A, and at the same time you have a working tree that > corresponds to the root of the submodule A at that path, it gets > unclear what "git diff A" should report. Should it report the > change in the submodule itself, or should it report the change in > the information _about_ the submodule? By separating these two > concepts to two different places, .gitmodules design solves the > issue nicely. git diff-link. Just turn it into a buffer and diff as usual. -- 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