On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 1:02 PM, Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 4/4/08, Pat Maddox <pergesu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I've got a repository that uses submodules. If I cd to the repo root > > and create a branch, all the submodules are switched to that branch as > > well. All good so far. I go into the submodules and do my work, > > committing as I go along. Then when I'm all done and want to merge > > the changes into my master branch, I cd back to the repo root and do > > "git merge new_topic" > > > > That's where it breaks down. The commits that I made go into the > > master repo itself, and the submodules don't have them. > > There is something wrong with your story somewhere: submodules in git > each have their own, completely independent, > branching/merging/pulling/pushing etc. What makes you think the > submodules are branching at the same time as your supermodule? > > Perhaps you have accidentally committed the *files* from your > submodule into your supermodule, which means you're not using > git-submodule at all. Hi Avery, You're right, something was screwed up with the repo. One of the paths was added as a submodule, but it also had files committed to it. I fixed all of that up and it seems to be fine now. Pat -- 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