HEADS-UP: Git submodule conversion imminent

Herbert Valerio Riedel hvriedel at gmail.com
Sat Jun 28 12:10:26 UTC 2014


On 2014-06-28 at 13:49:15 +0200, Gabor Greif wrote:
> Hi herbert,
>
> I followed your instructions, and one of my repos converted well:
>
>  e8a901fddc88c6560af34e18a5201deeb8d51557 libraries/stm
> (stm-2.4.3-release-3-ge8a901f)
>
> the other gave:
>
> -e8a901fddc88c6560af34e18a5201deeb8d51557 libraries/stm
>
> How can I salvage the situation?

That (the '-'-sign) simply means the 'libraries/stm' submodule wasn't
properly initalized;

running 'git submodule update --init' should usually take care of
initializing newly added submodules.


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