I have a project in git. It has a couple of submodules. Without going into the submodule and doing a git status or similar, is there a way to tell which commit, branch, and tag it the main project thinks it should be on?
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I have a project in git. It has a couple of submodules. Without going into the submodule and doing a git status or similar, is there a way to tell which commit, branch, and tag it the main project thinks it should be on?
The command
git submodule modulenamegives you the commit without going into the submodule directory, followed by the result ofgit describe, which gives you most recent tag:For branch you have to
cdin the directory, or change$GITDIRbefore runninggit status.