From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2012 17:43:30 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 3/3] submodule add: If --branch is given, record it in .gitmodules
Message-ID: <7vhani9bul.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <2c8df95b9f4cc9ceb9d6d96d5deac22320541dd9.1355932282.git.wking@tremily.us>

wking@tremily.us writes:

> From: "W. Trevor King" <wking@tremily.us>
>
> This allows you to easily record a submodule.<name>.branch option in
> .gitmodules when you add a new submodule.  With this patch,
>
>   $ git submodule add -b <branch> <repository> [<path>]
>   $ git config -f .gitmodules submodule.<path>.branch <branch>
>
> reduces to
>
>   $ git submodule add -b <branch> <repository> [<path>]
>
> This means that future calls to
>
>   $ git submodule update --remote ...
>
> will get updates from the same branch that you used to initialize the
> submodule, which is usually what you want.

I agree that it would usually be what you want when you are using
the --remote option.

Will replace the previous round with this.  Thanks.