From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2020 16:17:35 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 3/9] submodule: fall back to remote's HEAD for missing remote.<name>.branch
Message-ID: <xmqqv9jg780w.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <54563642dbf96fcb36993c2c2d36ebefaf220cce.1593009996.git.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>

"Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>
writes:

> Even so, it should be okay to fix this behavior without anything like a
> longer transition period:
>
> - The `git submodule update --remote` command is not really common.
>
> - Current Git's behavior when running this command is outright
>   confusing, unless the remote repository's current branch _is_ `master`
>   (in which case the proposed behavior matches the old behavior).
>
> - If a user encounters a regression due to the changed behavior, the fix
>   is actually trivial: setting `submodule.<name>.branch` to `master`
>   will reinstate the old behavior.
>
> Helped-by: Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
> ---

Well explained.  Thanks.