Re: [PATCH] Let .git/config specify the url for submodules

On 6/1/07, Josef Weidendorfer [off-list ref] wrote:

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On 5/28/07, Lars Hjemli [off-list ref] wrote:
3) 'git-submodule push' runs something like 'cd $path && git push
origin $branch', where $branch is found in .gitmodules
(path.$path.branch).

So if you need superproject related corrections in the submodule,
you always have to do it on branch "path.$path.branch" in the
submodule to get it saved?

I would assume that pushing the current branch should be enough.
If you want to play with multiple different "corrections" on
different branches in the submodule, you do not want to force
the branch name to a unique one given in .gitmodules.

The current (and planned) implementation of git-submodule detaches
HEAD in the submodules, so there will not be a current branch unless
the user has done 'cd $path && git-checkout somebranch'.

We might take advantage of that fact:
  * try to exec 'git-symbolic-ref HEAD'
  * if it fails, push to path.$path.branch
  * otherwise, push to the ref pointed to by HEAD

But this will still loose any changes on _other_ branches (that has
not been pushed to origin manually). I'm not sure if/how we can avoid
this, except by making $path be a symlink to .git/submodules/$name.git
(which has other issues...)

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larsh