Has consideration ever been given to a submodule-like facility where the configuration information maintained in the supermodule for the submodule is not a gitlink but is instead the name of a branch (or generally, a symbolic reference within the nested submodule). In this case, "git submodule update" would checkout the specified branch of each submodule rather than the specified commit. Of course, the intent of such a facility would be to allow git supermodules to be used to simplify management of a group of related, yet indOfependent, git projects. jon. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html