Re: [PATCH 6/6] Teach core object handling functions about gitlinks

From: Josef Weidendorfer <josef.weidendorfer@gmx.de>
Date: Apr 12, 2007, 15:12 UTC
Message-ID: <200704121712.08706.Josef.Weidendorfer@gmx.de>
In-Reply-To: <20070411235447.GO21701@admingilde.org>

On Thursday 12 April 2007, you wrote:

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> If you use a detached HEAD then you can no longer switch back to it
> once you used some other (independent) branch (for testing or whatever).
> This is my main argument: If you just update some 'special'
> refs/heads/from-supermodule (or whatever, maybe get it from
> .gitmodules/config) you can still switch between branches, making them
> more useful IMHO.

The supermodule checkout could create a .git/SUPER_HEAD for this. OK, that is a special kind of reference.

Or introduce "git --super ..." with works with the superproject. Form a submodule directory, a "git --super checkout ." could reset the submodule checkout.

Josef

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