From: Manish Goregaokar <manishsmail@xxxxxxxxx> 'git submodule status --cached' reports the SHAs expected by the parent project, instead of the SHAs that are actually checked out in the submodule. Signed-off-by: Manish Goregaokar <manishsmail@xxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/git-submodule.txt | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/git-submodule.txt b/Documentation/git-submodule.txt index 0ed5c24dc1..f05c2b92fb 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-submodule.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-submodule.txt @@ -80,6 +80,9 @@ status [--cached] [--recursive] [--] [<path>...]:: does not match the SHA-1 found in the index of the containing repository and `U` if the submodule has merge conflicts. + +If `--cached` is specified, this command will instead print the SHA-1 +recorded in the superproject for each submodule. ++ If `--recursive` is specified, this command will recurse into nested submodules, and show their status as well. + -- gitgitgadget
