On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 08:09:03AM -0500, W. Trevor King wrote: > * A new 'submodule pull' for tracking the submodule's remote, which is > pulling --ff-only origin/$branch into a whatever state the submodule > is currently in. If any changes were made to submodule $shas, > optionally commit them with a shortlog-generated commit message. I thought of a better idea on the train. How about adding `--remote` to `submodule update` that overrides the gitlinked SHA-1 with the SHA-1 for origin/$branch? All of the other checkout/merge/rebase functionality is untouched. The only thing that changes is where we look for the update. I'm working up the patch now, and will submit v5 shortly. -- This email may be signed or encrypted with GnuPG (http://www.gnupg.org). For more information, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Good_Privacy -- 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