From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 04:42:45 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Teach remote machinery about remotes.default config variable
Message-ID: <7vabn9m30a.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <478AD5A0.50900@gmail.com>

Mark Levedahl <mlevedahl@gmail.com> writes:

> ... if what
> we need to fetch from is in fact not origin (even though the master
> project knows what server to access), submodule update in fact doesn't
> even work ...

This is an interesting point.

Perhaps git-submodule.sh::modules_update should use $url it
obtains from the configuration in the upper level when running
git-fetch in the submodule.

If you view the problem this way, your earlier "git fetch while
the HEAD is detached always uses 'origin'" may turn out to be a
non-issue.

Which again brings us back to Johannes's earlier point.  If the
issue is about submodule, maybe what needs to be fixes is in
git-submodule, and not the defaulting to 'origin' git-fetch and
friends do.