From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2010 21:42:19 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] Re: git submodule -b ... of current HEAD fails
Message-ID: <7vipydwp50.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20101201185046.GB27024@burratino>

Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> writes:

> 	git submodule add -b $branch $repository
>
> fails when HEAD already points to $branch in $repository.

I was reviewing the overall picture before tagging 1.7.4-rc0 and started
wondering if this was a good change.  If repository already had branch
checked out, and if it was pointing at a commit that was different from
whatever was taken from origin, shouldn't the command _fail_ to prevent
the divergent commits from getting lost?