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slayedbylucifer
slayedbylucifer

Reputation: 23522

How to move uncommitted changes in a submodule to a new branch

My question is partially duplicate of Moving uncommitted changes to a new branch

However, The trick is, I made changes to few files which belong to a sub-module.

e.g.

My Primary repo: /testing
Sub-module is at: /testing/lib/xyz

I made changes to quite a few files under /testing/* and /testing/lib/xyz/*

Now I can do a git checkout -b new_branch and get my uncommitted changes to a new branch. But this will not get the changes under /testing/lib/xyz/* to the new branch because this path belongs to a sub-module.

Question: How do I move my uncommitted changes including changes to submodule to a new branch.

The reason being, In my haste, I made quite a few changes to a lot of files in my master branch to fix something. Now the fix is working, however, I do not want to merge these changes to master and I do not want to loose these changes as well. So I thought of moving these changes to a new branch and then continue working on the new branch. But then I faced this sub-module issue.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2357

Answers (1)

VonC
VonC

Reputation: 1329082

A sub module is a git repo: you can create a branch there to reference your new changes, just as explained in "Moving uncommitted changes to a new branch".

Then reset its content to its own master branch.

I would advise to push that branch to the submodule remote origin repo, in order to avoid keeping those changes purely local.

Upvotes: 1

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