From: Francesco Pretto <ceztko@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2014 21:51:34 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC v2] submodule: Respect requested branch on all clones
Message-ID: <CALas-iiH0GCwy9WMWxBSGbUykwAKikaLUhfdDUbETv91QuM-7g@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20140107213739.GA29954@odin.tremily.us>

2014/1/7 W. Trevor King <wking@tremily.us>:
>
> I'd be happy to hear ideas about superproject-branch-specific local
> overrides to a hypothetical submodule.<name>.local-branch, in the
> event that a developer doesn't like a default set in .gitmodules.  If
> I could think of a way to do that, we could avoid this heuristic
> approach, and make the local submodule.<name>.local-branch
> vs. remote-tracking submodule.<name>.branch distinction more obvious.
>

Uh, I think you got it wrong in the other thread: I didn't proposed
such feature. I just wanted the attached submodule use case to be
supported and of course "--branch means attached" is even easier to
get this.