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[Gandalf]

Hello,

 

I used to compile my openpli out of an old machine, but I have now upgraded this machine, and therefore installed a more recent Ubuntu 14.04 (x86), which includes a different version of git than my old machine.

 

With this new version comes a new behavior that I do not understand, maybe it is an issue, maybe not, but I tought I'd rather ask.

 

When I run the make command, a git submodule sync and git submodule update --init is performed. That seems to go well (ie the content of the submodules gets there), but those branch become detached. For exemple, meta-oppenembedded gives that :

 

dreambox@ubuntu:~/openpli/openpli-oe-core/meta-openembedded$ git branch -a

* (detached from 5f532a9)

  master

  remotes/origin/HEAD -> origin/master

  remotes/origin/daisy

  remotes/origin/danny

  remotes/origin/danny-next

  remotes/origin/denzil

  remotes/origin/denzil-next

  remotes/origin/dora

  remotes/origin/dylan

  remotes/origin/dylan-next

  remotes/origin/master

  remotes/origin/master-next

 

Is that an issue at all ? When I do make update later on, will it be stuck on that revision or will it track changes the way is used to ?

 

Thanks in advance to help me understand what's going on, I must say git is still a little mystery for me

 

G

[Erik Slagter]

This is absolutely expected and normal behaviour.

 

If you'd like to work in a submodule, you're supposed to clone it (somewhere else), you're not supposed to work in the submodule.

Edited by Erik Slagter, 25 September 2014 - 09:19.