From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2008 06:27:21 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Teach remote machinery about remotes.default config variable
Message-ID: <7v7iify2wm.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <47885B2C.8020809@gmail.com>

Mark Levedahl <mlevedahl@gmail.com> writes:

> Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> Mark Levedahl <mlevedahl@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>   It's that simple.  Isn't it?
>>
> Yes, until you hit submodules whose state you are managing from a
> super project. Then it gets hard because the machinery brings origin
> into play.

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.