I have a submodule and I plan to merge it into my main repo, but I have several tags that I want to keep. If I merge my submodule into my repo, would the tags that reference the submodule be messed up?
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I have a submodule and I plan to merge it into my main repo, but I have several tags that I want to keep. If I merge my submodule into my repo, would the tags that reference the submodule be messed up?
Tags don’t reference your submodule. They reference a commit that in it has a
.gitmodulesfile that has information about your submodule. Your tags will not be affected. To use a tag after you merge your submodule into your main repo, you can edit your config so the submodule’s url is the path to the repo itself. Now checking out a tag and doing asubmodule update(don’t do--initor it will clobber the just adjusted config) will make the tag usable.