Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > 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. Are you assuming that they share their object stores? -- 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