Jens Lehmann wrote:
> There were thoughts about having "git branch" optionally create a
> branch in the submodule too. But in a lot of real world scenarios
> that won't help because the same branch name won't necessarily make
> sense in superproject and submodule at the same time
So, here is how I think git could behave to make that into a
non-issue:
1. Commands like 'git checkout' able to recurse into submodules, so
when you switch branches in the superproject, the files in the
submodule are at the right commit, too.
Luckily your series does that. Ronnie was helping me with thoughts
about how to simplify the patch a little, and I'd be happy to talk
with or coordinate with anyone else interested (by email or on IRC
--- I am jrnieder on Freenode).
2. Submodules aware of their superproject and of the parent's branches.
In other words, submodules would act as thought under refs/ they
had a symlink
parent -> ../../../refs
So you could do
git checkout --recurse-submodules master
cd path/to/submodule
git checkout parent/heads/next
This would avoid danger from "git gc" in submodules and would
get rid of most of the motivation for named branches in the
submodule, I'd think.
3. That's it.
Sensible?
Thanks,
Jonathan
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