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I have a Git Submodule on one of my project and I'm trying to update it on my local copy where I have made some changes. I want the remote to override my local changes, but when I tried the following command, nothing happens and I still see my local changes in place.

joesan@joesan-S-14-v5:~/Projects/Private/github-docs/joesan-me/themes/hugo-clarity$ git status
HEAD detached at d5800ff
Changes not staged for commit:
  (use "git add <file>..." to update what will be committed)
  (use "git restore <file>..." to discard changes in working directory)
    modified:   exampleSite/config/_default/params.toml

no changes added to commit (use "git add" and/or "git commit -a")
joesan@joesan-S-14-v5:~/Projects/Private/github-docs/joesan-me/themes/hugo-clarity$

What is that I'm doing wrong here?

joesan
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    `git status` means *inspect and report*, so of course it did not *change* anything. Use `git restore` as it suggests if you want to undo the one file, or `git reset --hard` to undo everything very destructively. – torek Dec 22 '21 at 06:05

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As @torek comment says, git status is only show you the current status of your git repo. It will not do anything.

You can't simply use git reset --hard when you at super repo root. You should cd into submodule before reset, checkout or restore.

So:

cd path/to/submodule
git reset --hard  # or git restore .

if there are many submodule or you don't want to cd into it, you can use:

git submodule foreach git reset --hard

but this will effect all submodule under super repo, be aware!

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