Re: [PATCH] Teach remote machinery about remotes.default config variable

From: Mark Levedahl <mlevedahl@gmail.com>
Date: Jan 12, 2008, 13:24 UTC
Message-ID: <4788BFA8.2030508@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7v7iify2wm.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> Sorry, I may be missing something.
>
> Even if you have a submodule, you can go there and that will be
> a valid freestanding repository.  You can always be explicit,
> bypassing any behaviour that defaults to 'origin' to avoid
> ambiguity.
>

"git-submodule update" *requires* that origin is defined in all sub-modules. There is no way to avoid this behavior.

Mark

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