From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: how to update a submodule?
Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2011 11:57:26 -0600
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Jens Lehmann wrote:

> Submodules don't work very well when you change URLs (that can result
> in forcing your coworkers to do a "git submodule sync" in their repo
> every time they switch to a commit with a changed URL).

For the future, it is probably most convenient to use URLs starting
with "../" or "./", which would rarely need to change.  That can even
work with passing around a tarball of bundles and a script to
reconstitute them, I think.

Thanks for some food for thought.
Jonathan