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

From: Jens Lehmann <jens.lehmann@web.de>
Date: Mar 28, 2014, 16:57 UTC
Message-ID: <5335AA0E.7000001@web.de>
In-Reply-To: <20140328035827.GG25485@odin.tremily.us>

Am 28.03.2014 04:58, schrieb W. Trevor King:

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> On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 08:52:55PM -0700, W. Trevor King wrote:
>> 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” ;).
> 
> Hmm, maybe we should change the existing “upstream submodule” to
> “upstream subproject” for consistency?

For me it's still an "upstream submodule" ...