Re: [RFC] submodule: change submodule.<name>.branch default from master to HEAD

From: W. Trevor King <wking@tremily.us>
Date: Mar 28, 2014, 03:52 UTC
Message-ID: <20140328035255.GF25485@odin.tremily.us>
In-Reply-To: <CAPig+cT7tmxvYz+sLQY68SgF6osM+pAj-gFb7xvyuH+Gnw5xrg@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 11:43:47PM -0400, Eric Sunshine wrote:

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> On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 11:36 PM, W. Trevor King <wking@tremily.us> wrote:
> >  submodule.<name>.branch::
> >         A remote branch name for tracking updates in the upstream submodule.
> > -       If the option is not specified, it defaults to 'master'.  See the
> > -       `--remote` documentation in linkgit:git-submodule[1] for details.
> > +       If the option is not specified, it defaults to the subproject's
> 
> Did you mean s/subproject/submodule/ ?
> 
> > +       HEAD.  See the `--remote` documentation in linkgit:git-submodule[1]
> > +       for details.

No the remote branch is in the upstream subproject. I suppose I meant “the submodule's remote-tracking branch following the upstream subproject's HEAD which we just fetched so it's fairly current” ;).

Cheers, Trevor

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