On Thu, Aug 16 2018, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 12:54 PM, Shani Fridman >> <Shani.Fridman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> >>> Hi everybody, >>> >>> I've got a question regarding submodules - >>> >>> I'm working on a git project with submodules connected to it, and pulling changes from them every month (more or less). >>> Sometimes I need to checkout older versions of the project (tags or specific commits), that needs the older versions of the submodules as they were when I defined the tag. The problem is, that the checkout only changes the superProject directories, and not the submodules... I have to checkout the relevant submodules commit manually. >>> >>> Have you came across the same problem? Any idea what can I do? >> >> You run "git submodule update". > > The problem is, some people consider that I have to do things > "manually" X-<. I may be wrong, but I read that part as e.g. cd-ing into each submodule dir, and checking out the commit you see in "git diff" from the top-level, hence the suggestion.
