Re: Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] git-submodule add: Add -r/--record option

On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 07:19:12AM -0500, W. Trevor King wrote:

The benefit is that Ævar's

  $ git submodule foreach 'git checkout $(git config --file $toplevel/.gitmodules submodule.$name.branch) && git pull'

becomes

  $ git submodule update --pull

There is an important question still unanswered here for me: How does
the submodule get the configuration what the local branch tracks on the
remote side?

Cheers Heiko