2014/1/14 Heiko Voigt <hvoigt@xxxxxxxxxx>: > On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 02:22:31PM -0800, W. Trevor King wrote: >> On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 10:46:08PM +0100, Heiko Voigt wrote: >> > I would like to step back a bit and get back to the original problem >> > at hand: Francescos original use case of an attached head for direct >> > commits on a stable branch in a submodule. How about we finish >> > discussing the exact solution of that first. AFAIK that is already >> > solved with the following: >> > >> > * Trevor's first patch[2] to create a branch on initial clone of a submodule > [...] > >> > That should be all (and IIRC Francesco agreed) needed for that use-case. >> >> That was my understanding [3] ;). > > I've been silent these days but yes: I confirm Trevor's second patch iteration[1] gives, IMO, a better meaning of the submodule.<name>.branch property and is perfectly fine for my use case, to the point of stopping pursuing for my non behavior changing patch[4] (I still think it deserved some more in depth reviews, though ;) ). Cheers, Francesco [1]: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/239967 [2]: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/239973 [3]: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/240139 [4]: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/239956 -- 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