How do I check out a specific version of a submodule using ‘git submodule’?

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Submodule repositories stay in a detached HEAD state pointing to a specific commit. Changing that commit simply involves checking out a different tag or commit then adding the change to the parent repository.

$ cd submodule
$ git checkout v2.0
Previous HEAD position was 5c1277e... bumped version to 2.0.5
HEAD is now at f0a0036... version 2.0

git-status on the parent repository will now report a dirty tree: 

# On branch dev [...]
#
#   modified:   submodule (new commits)

Add the submodule directory and commit to store the new pointer.

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