Strange checkout message

Simon Marlow marlowsd at gmail.com
Mon Apr 28 08:41:30 UTC 2014


I believe sync-all pull is supposed to automatically do a submodule 
update.  If it doesn't then that's a bug - Simon please create a ticket.

Cheers,
Simon

On 24/04/2014 09:36, Johan Tibell wrote:
> I believe you need to run `git submodule update`. The orf branch was
> likely set to use a different commit from the haddock repo than your
> current repo. Git doesn't automatically assume that you want to switch
> your submodule to use the same commit as the orf branch was using, hence
> you now have a "change" in your checkout relative to the orf branch
> (i.e. you changed to using a different commit from the haddock repo.)
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 9:50 AM, Simon Peyton Jones
> <simonpj at microsoft.com <mailto:simonpj at microsoft.com>> wrote:
>
>     Herbert or others,____
>
>     What does this mean (in a clean tree)____
>
>     git checkout wip/orf____
>
>     Checking out files: 100% (159/159), done.____
>
>     *M    utils/haddock____*
>
>     Branch wip/orf set up to track remote branch wip/orf from origin.____
>
>     Switched to a new branch 'wip/orf'____
>
>     simonpj at cam-05-unx:~/code/HEAD-3$____
>
>     What’s all this about haddock being modified?  I’ve just checked out
>     a branch, which is supposed to make everything line up, isn’t it? ____
>
>     Do you need to say “git submodule update” as well?____
>
>     Could this be documented in the (upcoming?) workflows page?____
>
>     Thanks____
>
>     Simon____
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