Re: RFC: Making submodules "track" branches

> Wouldn't it be enough to say --ignore-submodules for your day-to-day work,
> without lying in the gitlink entry in the superproject tree?  An entry
> "submodule.foo.branch = fred" in your .gitmodules will still tell your
> local git to update the submodule worktree to work on 'fred' branch.  At
> least, an arrangement like that would allow the build infrastructure to
> use --no-ignore-submodules when running its equivalent of GIT-VERSION-GEN
> to notice that what you are building is using something different from
> what the superproject specified to use in the submodule, while not bugging
> you with differences you do not care about (or you already know about and
> are irrelevant to the change you are working on).