How to see status of a git submodule library?

Question

I have a library in a git project which is a submodule, I will call it service-lib.

The serivce-lib is not developed by myself or my company, and in fact I am encouraged not to edit it.

How can I check the git status of this module to:

1. Check to makes sure I haven't accidentally edited/created a file in it
2. See any updates from the developers (i.e. so I can adopt any bug fixes they may have added)

Answer 1

git submodule has the following command to view submodule statuts.

git submodule status path/to/submodule