On 07/31/2017 02:09 PM, Christian Rebischke wrote: >> Do I really need to do this? Won't the 'git submodule update' command choose >> the >> correct commit? > > May somebody else correct me, but I don't think so. `git submodule > update` will just update to the HEAD of the sub repository. And we want > stable builds. Therefore it's important to pin the software at a > specific commit and it's dependencies, too.
You're both right and wrong. "$srcdir/$submodulename" will be at origin/master, but `git submodule update` in the primary repo will completely ignore that clone altogether and just cares about the git objects which it uses in yet another clone. -- Eli Schwartz
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