From: Nahor Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2012 22:02:06 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-submodule add: Record branch name in .gitmodules Message-ID: <508713DE.7040801@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <5086FFDC.2050700@web.de> On 2012-10-23 13:36, Jens Lehmann wrote: > Am 23.10.2012 21:16, schrieb Nahor: >> Last issue, the branch that exists in your local repository may not >> exist in someone else's repository, either because the branch is >> purely local, or because it has a different name on the remote repo. > > You'll always face this kind of problems with commits too when using > submodules, so I don't see that as a problem here. Commits can't change or disappear during "normal" git operation (i.e. without using "git push -f" or "git branch -D"). A commit also has the same id in all the clones repository so there is no issue of a different name between the local and the remote repositories.