Okay. This is probably a jumble. It’s also a question disguised as an explanation of my experience. It’s possible working through this all has answered my question, but…

At some point it may seem like an interesting idea to move one of the submodules in your Git repository to an entirely different URL with completely different commit hashes and history. Here's how it goes.

I have a jeremyfelt.com repository, similar to this on GitHub, that includes WordPress trunk as a submodule. I manage plugin and theme files outside of core WordPress files and from time to time do a git submodule foreach git pull, which grabs the latest changes from the WordPress repo. This all works beautifully (I think), […]