Re: [RFC v2] submodule: Respect requested branch on all clones

From: W. Trevor King <wking@tremily.us>
Date: Jan 7, 2014, 21:37 UTC
Message-ID: <20140107213739.GA29954@odin.tremily.us>
In-Reply-To: <CALas-iizoBjTu2KSXsZExNeLz5hxbzoNNGgYLMP9SmDH+kt9Vw@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Jan 07, 2014 at 09:09:19PM +0100, Francesco Pretto wrote:

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> 2014/1/7 W. Trevor King <wking@tremily.us>:
> >> Trevor, maybe it was not clear. But I wanted to say:
> >>
> >> " I fully support *Trevor's* patch..." :)
> >
> > Which I appreciate ;).  I still though I should point out that my
> > patch *confuses* the role of submodule.<name>.branch :p.
> 
> You are welcome. Also, at your wish, can you please reply also in
> public?

Here you go.

I'd be happy to hear ideas about superproject-branch-specific local overrides to a hypothetical submodule.<name>.local-branch, in the event that a developer doesn't like a default set in .gitmodules. If I could think of a way to do that, we could avoid this heuristic approach, and make the local submodule.<name>.local-branch vs. remote-tracking submodule.<name>.branch distinction more obvious.

It would also be nice if submodule.<name>.branch was just an initial setup-time and detached-HEAD default. If the submodule is on a branch it would make more sense to use the checked-out branch's @{upstream}.

Cheers, Trevor

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