From: Manish Goregaokar <manishsmail@xxxxxxxxx> 'git submodule status' reports the SHAs expected by the parent project, not the SHAs that are actually checked out in the submodule. Checking out a new SHA in a submodule will not change the output of 'git submodule status' until you 'git add' the submodule. Signed-off-by: Manish Goregaokar <manishsmail@xxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/git-submodule.txt | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/git-submodule.txt b/Documentation/git-submodule.txt index 0ed5c24dc1..31e089454a 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-submodule.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-submodule.txt @@ -72,8 +72,8 @@ git-submodule will correctly locate the submodule using the relative URL in `.gitmodules`. status [--cached] [--recursive] [--] [<path>...]:: - Show the status of the submodules. This will print the SHA-1 of the - currently checked out commit for each submodule, along with the + Show the status of the submodules. This will print the SHA-1 + recorded in the superproject for each submodule, along with the submodule path and the output of 'git describe' for the SHA-1. Each SHA-1 will possibly be prefixed with `-` if the submodule is not initialized, `+` if the currently checked out submodule commit -- gitgitgadget
