HEADS-UP: Git submodule conversion imminent

Gabor Greif ggreif at gmail.com
Sat Jun 28 12:19:15 UTC 2014


Hmm, I guess this was the reason,
when I did that, I got

> fatal: Needed a single revision
> Unable to find current revision in submodule path 'libraries/parallel'

so the other submodules were not initialized.

What might be wrong with 'libraries/parallel' ?

Thanks,

    Gabor

On 6/28/14, Herbert Valerio Riedel <hvriedel at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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