From: W. Trevor King <wking@tremily.us>
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2012 00:53:07 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] git-submodule add: Add -r/--record option.
Message-ID: <20121025005307.GE801@odin.tremily.us>
In-Reply-To: <50883E54.4080507@web.de>

On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 09:15:32PM +0200, Jens Lehmann wrote:
> I still fail to see what adding that functionality to the submodule
> command buys us (unless we also add code which really uses the branch
> setting). What's wrong with doing a simple:
> 
>    git config -f .gitmodules submodule.<path>.branch <record_branch>
> 
> on the command line when you want to use the branch setting for your
> own purposes? You could easily wrap that into a helper script, no?

Sure.  But why maintain my own helper script if I can edit
git-submodules.sh?  It seems like a number of people are using this
config option, and they generally store the same name in it that they
use to create the submodule.  This way I can save them time too.

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