From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 12:13:11 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Teach git submodule update to use distributed repositories
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0807171311010.8986@racer>
In-Reply-To: <320075ff0807170508j3d3c1ef8j49df576fc47debe2@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

On Thu, 17 Jul 2008, Nigel Magnay wrote:

> When doing a git submodule update, it fetches any missing submodule
> commits from the repository specified in .gitmodules.

Huh?  It takes what is in .git/config!  Not what is in .gitmodules.

So if you have another remote (or URL, e.g. if you have ssh:// access, but 
the .gitmodules file lists git://), just edit .git/config.

I meant, that is the whole _point_ of having a two-step init/update 
procedure.

Ciao,
Dscho