From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2010 00:34:06 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] Re: git submodule -b ... of current HEAD fails
Message-ID: <7vlj39to1t.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <4D1A7B42.1050907@web.de>

Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de> writes:

> But doesn't this change only affect the case where the submodule is
> freshly cloned, so there is no chance of losing local changes?

My fault, for not looking at the surrounding context.

> (But AFAIK the patch doesn't really fix the issue, please see [1] and
> Jonathan's followup)
>
> [1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.devel.bugs.general/772659/focus=163242

I think we queued the later round just uses "checkout -B"; shouldn't that
work?