From: Sam Vilain <sam@vilain.net>
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 22:49:08 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] Teach core object handling functions about gitlinks
Message-ID: <461D65E4.6060106@vilain.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0704110753360.6730@woody.linux-foundation.org>

Linus Torvalds wrote:
> (Side note: if you do *not* use detatched HEAD, I suspect the .gitmodules 
> file could also contain the branchname to be used for the subproject 
> tracking, but I think that's a detail, and quite debatable)
>   

To discuss this detail, what about keeping refs, such as
refs/submodules/branch/path/* (or some other convention) which are
updated on commit? Then you can also easily clone just the submodule.

Sam.