How to revert a Git Submodule pointer to the commit stored in the containing repository?

Question

I have a git submodule in my main git repo. As I understand it, the main repo stores a SHA value (somewhere...), pointing to the specific commit of the submodule that it is \"li

Answer 1

Another case I just ran into is if there is an unstaged change in the submodule that you want to discard. git submodule update will not remove that change, nor will git reset --hard on the parent directory. You need to go to the submodule directory and do a git reset --hard. So if I want to fully discard unstaged changes in both my parent and submodule, I do the following:

In Parent:

git reset --hard

git submodule update

In Submodule:

git reset --hard