Re: [boost] [git] confusion setting moduler-boost to 'master'

Subject: Re: [boost] [git] confusion setting moduler-boost to 'master'
From: Daniel James (dnljms_at_[hidden])
Date: 2014-08-11 14:44:00

On 11 August 2014 19:37, Edward Diener <eldiener_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> Somehow my local modular-boost is confused. I have set the top-level to
> 'master' and each of the sub-modules to 'master'. Yet git still shows it
> wants to commit each of the submodules at the library level as all are
> marked dirty.
>
> So I try:
>
> git reset --hard master
> git submodule foreach --recursive git reset --hard master

I expect that's your local master branch which is probably out of
date, not master from the server.

> But still the end result is that git has marked each submodule as 'dirty'
> and needing to commit.
>
> Anybody have any ideas how I straighten out this mess ?

git submodule update --init