'git submodule update' will fetch new commits from the submodule remote if the SHA-1 recorded in the superproject is not found. This was not mentioned in the documentation. --- Documentation/git-submodule.txt | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Documentation/git-submodule.txt b/Documentation/git-submodule.txt index ba3c4df550acf..026ee07a2b641 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-submodule.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-submodule.txt @@ -128,7 +128,8 @@ update [--init] [--remote] [-N|--no-fetch] [--[no-]recommend-shallow] [-f|--forc + -- Update the registered submodules to match what the superproject -expects by cloning missing submodules and updating the working tree of +expects by cloning missing submodules, fetching missing submodule commits +and updating the working tree of the submodules. The "updating" can be done in several ways depending on command line options and the value of `submodule.<name>.update` configuration variable. The command line option takes precedence over -- https://github.com/git/git/pull/596
