Re: [RFC v2] submodule: Respect requested branch on all clones

From: Francesco Pretto <ceztko@gmail.com>
Date: Jan 7, 2014, 19:52 UTC
Message-ID: <CALas-ihyPTt60F_cVM8_D07rkN+gtaD9HdWcPvfx-soN4bFrgg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CALas-ihPmJSf9eH0P7Vf28pB4zN_dsa_2=fe+_moZgiP0C3UTA@mail.gmail.com>

2014/1/7 Francesco Pretto <ceztko@gmail.com>:

Show 8 quoted lines

> 2014/1/7 Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>:
>> It is not immediately obvious to me why anybody who specifies the
>> submodule.*.branch variable to say "I want _that_ branch" not to
>> want to be on that branch but in a detached state, so from that
>> perspective, submodule.*.attach feels superfluous.
>>
>
> Junio, for what it concerns me I fully support *this* patch as,

Where "this" patch is Trevor's one, don't get me wrong... :)

$ cat FOOTERMessages come from the public archive at lore.kernel.org/git, fetched every hour. The front page is chosen and written each morning by an AI editor and can be wrong; the threads themselves are the record. About and API. For agents: an MCP server at https://gitlist.dev/mcp, and any thread, story or person page as Markdown by adding .md to its URL (or sending Accept: text/markdown). Details in /llms.txt.