From: W. Trevor King <wking@tremily.us>
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 03:52:55 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC] submodule: change submodule.<name>.branch default from master to HEAD
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:
> 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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