On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 2:43 PM, Hilco Wijbenga <hilco.wijbenga@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I'm assuming that if you have subproject S in umbrella project U and a > branch "topic" in U then that same branch should exist in S. Any > changes in S's topic should show up in U's topic (probably after some > sort of update command like git fetch/pull). This should be unusual, > though, you should be working in U, not S. If you want to work on > something in S that you don't want to see in U, then you should not be > working in S's topic. This paragraph makes me wonder why you want to use submodules at all. Wouldn't a sparse checkout be a better fit for what you're trying to accomplish? -PJ Gehm's Corollary to Clark's Law: Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. -- 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