On 10-06-08 04:23 PM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: > On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 19:32, Marc Branchaud <marcnarc@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> Opting in or out can't just be a monolithic setting for each submodule. A >> submodule's branch tracking has to be on or off depending on the circumstances. > > I don't really get what the objection is exactly. How should "branch > tracking" be achieved do you think? Well, I outlined some ideas in my first message in this thread... >> I guess what I'm saying is that duplicating svn's externals doesn't seem all >> that useful to me and I'd rather see git do better. I've no objection if >> folks want to have such a feature, but to me it's not what "submodules >> tracking branches" should be about. > > Obviously I have no objection to doing better, but how specifically > should that be done? If the semantics you want are "give me the latest > version of $URL, whatever that is" then the SVN semantics are pretty > good. The nuance is that the semantics aren't "*always* give me the latest version of $URL" but rather "*sometimes* give me the latest version of $URL." Anyway, others have raised issues that touch on this, and I'm happy to just see where those discussions go. M. -- 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