"Yin Ping" <pkufranky@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > On 11/3/07, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> How does this work when you are a toplevel developer and do not >> have the submodule cloned and checked out? >> >> Our code should treat having the submodule directory and not >> having it when there is a mode 160000 entry in the index equally >> likely. Cloning and checking-out is _not_ the norm (nor the >> exception). >> > When submodule is not cheched out, it is never modified. How so? Can't you update the index alone? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html