From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 01 May 2012 17:57:07 GMT
Subject: Re: Location-agnostic submodules
Message-ID: <7v4nrzaioc.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <732A8D2DB3374CD6BC12A5E7C4384313@PhilipOakley>

"Philip Oakley" <philipoakley@iee.org> writes:

> Would an alternative be something like:
>    git submodule update <module> --from <remote>
>
> so that the user can state which of the current submodule's remotes
> should be used for fetching the desired update.

Are you assuming that the <remote> in the above example will be different
per invocation for a single user?  I would imagine not---it would be more
like "the upstream has this URL in .gitmodules, but this other mirror is
closer to my network environment", i.e.

	cd <module's directory> && git config remote.origin.url $there

no?