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From: Ulrich HERRMANN <ulrich.herrmann@st.com>
To: "git@vger.kernel.org" <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: git submodule status never says “old commits”
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2020 12:14:58 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <VE1PR10MB3374796F04367FA5DE25F921945B0@VE1PR10MB3374.EURPRD10.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <VE1PR10MB33746C60D550BB11162F5E24945B0@VE1PR10MB3374.EURPRD10.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM>

Hi all,

I am now a user of git-submodules for quite some time. However I still haven’t figured out how to get better status/diff information. When the submodule is at a different version it always gives me "new commits" but never "old commits" even though I have checked out an older version inside the submodule. git diff gives me two different hashes which also don't give any directly readable information.  Git could check the ancestry graph to figure the relation of the two commits: child/parent, parent/child, common ancestor, etc.
Or is there a feature / command line switch of git which I am missing?

Best Regards, Ulrich

       reply	other threads:[~2020-08-21 12:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <VE1PR10MB33746C60D550BB11162F5E24945B0@VE1PR10MB3374.EURPRD10.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM>
2020-08-21 12:14 ` Ulrich HERRMANN [this message]
2020-08-22  1:54   ` git submodule status never says “old commits” brian m. carlson
2020-10-12 13:38     ` Ulrich HERRMANN

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