Re: [RFC] submodule: change submodule.<name>.branch default from master to HEAD

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On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 08:52:55PM -0700, W. Trevor King wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 11:43:47PM -0400, Eric Sunshine wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 11:36 PM, W. Trevor King <wking@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >  submodule.<name>.branch::
> > >         A remote branch name for tracking updates in the upstream submodule.
> > > -       If the option is not specified, it defaults to 'master'.  See the
> > > -       `--remote` documentation in linkgit:git-submodule[1] for details.
> > > +       If the option is not specified, it defaults to the subproject's
> > 
> > Did you mean s/subproject/submodule/ ?
> > 
> > > +       HEAD.  See the `--remote` documentation in linkgit:git-submodule[1]
> > > +       for details.
> 
> No the remote branch is in the upstream subproject.  I suppose I meant
> “the submodule's remote-tracking branch following the upstream
> subproject's HEAD which we just fetched so it's fairly current” ;).

Hmm, maybe we should change the existing “upstream submodule” to
“upstream subproject” for consistency?

Trevor

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