On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 10:25 PM Taylor Blau <me@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 10:19:25PM +0800, Hongyi Zhao wrote: > > What's the meaning of the '+' sign at the beginning? Why do some > > submodules have this symbol, but some submodules don't? > > There are three symbols, 'U', '-', and '+'. From the documentation [1], > they mean: > > Each SHA-1 will possibly be prefixed with `-` if the submodule is not > initialized, `+` if the currently checked out submodule commit does not > match the SHA-1 found in the index of the containing repository and `U` > if the submodule has merge conflicts. > > [1]: https://git-scm.com/docs/git-submodule#Documentation/git-submodule.txt-status--cached--recursive--ltpathgt82308203 Thank you very much for pointing out this document information to me. The above submodules status for my case were achieved by the following command: $ git submodule update --init --recursive --remote As you can see, this will cause the status denoted by '+', i.e., the currently checked out submodule commit does not match the SHA-1 found in the index of the containing repository. I'm not sure if this is harmful. HY > Thanks, > Taylor -- Assoc. Prof. Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao@xxxxxxxxx> Theory and Simulation of Materials Hebei Polytechnic University of Science and Technology engineering NO. 552 North Gangtie Road, Xingtai, China
