On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 07:19:12AM -0500, W. Trevor King wrote: > The benefit is that Ævar's > > $ git submodule foreach 'git checkout $(git config --file $toplevel/.gitmodules submodule.$name.branch) && git pull' > > becomes > > $ git submodule update --pull There is an important question still unanswered here for me: How does the submodule get the configuration what the local branch tracks on the remote side? Cheers Heiko -- 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