From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2009 14:23:48 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] submodule: allow tracking of the newest revision of a branch in a submodule
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0901101522560.30769@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>
In-Reply-To: <1231553410-7541-1-git-send-email-git@fabian-franz.de>

Hi,

On Sat, 10 Jan 2009, Fabian Franz wrote:

> Submodules currently only allow tracking a specific revision and each 
> update in a submodule leads to a new commit in the master repository. 
> However some users may want to always track the newest revision of a 
> specific (named) tag or branch or HEAD. For example the user might want 
> to track a staging branch in all submodules.

I wonder how you want to deal with "git bisect".  Or for that matter, with 
"git checkout HEAD^500".

Ciao,
Dscho