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Derrick
Derrick

Reputation: 357

How to git reset --hard HEAD^ root of repo without affecting submodules

After making a temporary commit to the root of a repo, which has submodules, I haphazardly ran git reset --hard HEAD^ with the intention of just deleting said commit on the master's root - but to my dismay affect all submodule repos too....

I just wanted to delete the head commit on the root repo.

Is there a better/safer way to accomplish this task without affecting the submodule repos ?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 155

Answers (1)

torek
torek

Reputation: 488599

The default default for git reset is --no-recurse-submodules (as is true for checkout / switch as well). However, if you've set recursion to be on by default by configuring submodule.recurse to true or 1 or otherwise enabled, you can always pass an explicit --no-recurse-submodules option to override your override. You can also run git -c submodule.recurse=0, as noted in the git config documentation.

Upvotes: 1

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